Sponge Cake

Two cups of fruit sugar, 4 eggs. Beat sugar and eggs together until very light. Add to this 2 cups of flour and 1 teaspoon of baking powder, sifted together, and flavor to taste. Add 2-3 of cup boiling water. Beat thoroughly. Bake in moderate oven. - Nettie Dingman.

Cream Sponge Cake

One cupful of sugar, 2 eggs, ½ cupful of cream, 1 cupful of flour, 1 teaspoonful of Royal baking powder. Beat sugar and eggs light, add the cream, and lastly, flour and powder. Very fine. - Mrs. A. A. Dodsworth.

Blackberry Cake

One cup sugar, ¾ cup butter, 3 yolks eggs, 3 tablespoons sour cream, 1 cup blackberry jam, 1 nutmeg, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 3 whites of eggs beaten stiff, 1½ cups of flour, 1 teaspoonful of soda. - Mrs. R. F. Thaxter.

Potato Cake

Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter, ½ cup milk, 4 eggs, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons yeast powder, 1 cup cooked mashed potatoes, 4 sticks grated chocolate, 1 cup chopped nuts. Caramel frosting. - Mrs. J. R. Eldred.

Fruit Cake

Five cups brown sugar, 5 cups flour. 1 cup sour cream, 1 cup butter, 1 pound raisins, 1 pound currants, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cloves, allspice, cinnamon. 2 nutmegs, 6 eggs.

- Mrs. T. F. Heth.

Pound Cake

One pound flour, 1 light pound butter, 10 eggs, 1 pound sugar, 1 tablespoon milk, 1 heaping teaspoon Royal baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, then add yolks 1 at a time and continue to beat. Then add flour and milk. Beat whites until stiff. Just fold in baking powder last.

- Martha J. Dodsworth.

Sunshine Cake

Six eggs, 1¼ cups granulated sugar. 1 cup flour, scant ½ teaspoon cream tartar, a pinch of salt added to whites of eggs before whipping; flavor to taste. Sift, measure and set aside flour and sugar. Separate the eggs, putting the whites in the mixing bowl and the yolks in a small bowl. Beat the yolks to a very stiff froth, whip whites to foam, add cream tartar and whip until very stiff. Add sugar to whites and beat in, add yolks and beat in, then flavor and beat in, then flour and fold lightly through. Put in a moderate oven at once. "Will bake in 20 to 40 minutes. - Mrs. Geo. Martens.

Lady Baltimore Cake

One cup butter, 2 cups sugar beaten to a cream. Add 1 cup of milk, 3½ cups sifted flour mixed with 2 rounding teaspoons baking powder. Then add 1 teaspoon of vanilla and the well beaten whites of 6 eggs. Bake in 3 layers. Put together with the following mixture: 3 cups of sugar and 1 cup of water boiled until it spins a thread. Pour gradually on the beaten whites of 3 eggs. Beat until the right consistency to spread. Add 1 cup chopped raisins, 1 cup of chopped pecan or walnut meats and 5 figs cut in strips.

- Mrs. W. J. Cox.

Lightning Cake

Butter size of egg. 2 eggs. Melt butter in cup, break in eggs and finish filling cup with milk. Now take mixing dish, sift 1 cup flour. 1 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon baking powder together. Into this pour the cup of liquids. Stir until smooth, add flavoring, bake in 2 layers, adding any filling desired.

- Mrs. Otanus Wright.