Date Cake

1 lb. dates, stoned and halved 1/2 lb. (1 cup) butter 1/2 lb. (1 cup) sugar.

2 eggs.

1 teaspoonful baking soda.

1 gill (1/2 cup) boiling water.

1 lb. chopped walnut meats.

2 cupfuls Sultana raisins 1/2 lb. (2 cups) flour.

1 teaspoonful almond extract.

Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy, then add the eggs well beaten. Dissolve the soda in the boiling water, then add it with the nuts, fruit, extract, and flour. Mix thoroughly, turn into a buttered and floured fireproof dish, and bake in a moderate oven for one hour.

Dutch Apple Cake

Apples, cored and sliced.

1 oz. (1 heaping table-spoonful) butter, melted.

3 eggs.

1 teaspoonful lemon extract.

4 ozs. (4 heaping tablespoon-fuls) sugar.

1/2 lb. (2 cups) flour.

1/4 teaspoonful salt.

2 heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder.

1/2 pint (1 cup) milk.

Separate the yolks from the whites of the eggs, add to the yolks the melted butter, milk, salt, and sifted flour. Beat till smooth, then add the baking powder, lemon extract, and fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs.

Pour into a well-greased casserole, cover with the apples, and bake in a hot oven for half an hour.

Serve hot with sweet sauce flavored with lemon extract or with cream.

Fruit Cake

1/2 lb. (1 cup) butter.

1 1/2 lbs. (3 cups) sugar.

6 eggs.

1 pint (2 cups) sour cream.

1 teaspoonful soda.

1 3/4 lbs. (7 cups) flour.

1 grated nutmeg.

1/2 teaspoonful powdered mace 1 lb. currants 1 lb. Sultana raisins 1/2 lb. chopped citron peel 1 lemon.

1 teaspoonful rose extract 1/4 teaspoonful salt.

Cream the butter and sugar together, add gradually the yolks of the eggs well beaten, the soda mixed with the cream, flour, salt, spices, grated rind and strained lemon juice, the chopped citron peel, currants, rose extract, raisins, and the whites of eggs beaten stiffly.

Mix carefully, turn into a large buttered casserole, and bake for two and a half hours in a steady oven.

Fudge Cake

4 ozs. (1/2 cup) butter 1/2 lb. (1 cup) sugar 2 eggs.

1 gill (1/2 cup) milk 6 ozs. (1 1/2 cups) flour.

2 1/2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 2 ozs. melted unsweetened chocolate 1/2 teaspoonful vanilla extract.

Cream the butter and sugar together, then add the yolks of eggs well beaten, the whites stiffly beaten, milk, flour, baking powder, chocolate, and extracts.

Mix well and pour into a buttered and floured shallow casserole. Bake for forty minutes in a moderate oven. When cold, cover with any good white frosting.

Hickory Nut Cake

11/2 cupfuls hickory nut meats 1 lb. (2 cups) sugar 1/2 lb. (1 cup) butter 3 eggs.

1/2 pint (1 cup) buttermilk 1 teaspoonful baking soda 1 lb. (4 cups) sifted flour , 1/4 teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful almond extract.

Cream the butter and sugar together, then add the eggs well beaten, the salt, extract, the soda dissolved in the buttermilk, flour, and the nuts chopped.

Mix carefully and pour into a buttered and floured casserole and bake in a moderate oven for one hour.