Bran Cake

Cream together 2 eggs, 1 cup brown sugar, 3/4 cup shortening; add 1 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon each baking powder and soda, 2/3 cup currants, salt, 1 cup flour, then mix stiff with bran. - Mrs. B. A. Bennett, Austin, 111.

Bread Cake

Cream 1/2. cup butter and 2 cups sugar together; add yolks of 2 eggs, mix with 2 cups of light bread sponge; add 1 tablespoon sweet milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 cup seeded raisins. 1 teaspoon cloves and 2 of cinnamon. Flour enough to make a dough. Let rise a little and put in slow oven to bake about 1 hr. - Mrs. Wm. Ableman, 604 S..9th Ave., Maywood, 111.

Variation I

1 cup sugar, 1 cup grated rye bread, 4 egg-. 1/4 lb. almonds, 1/2 teaspoon each of cloves and baking powder, and the rind of a lemon. - Mrs. Klug, 25 N. 5th Ave., Maywood, 111.

Burnt Sugar Cake

Beat 1/2 cup butter to a cream; add gradually V/2 cups sugar, yolks of 2 eggs, 1 cup water and 2 cups of flour. Beat constantly for 5 minutes 3 tablespoons burnt sugar. 1 of vanilla, 1/2 cup flour. Stir carefully 2 teaspoons of baking powder and the well-beaten whites of 2 eggs. - Mrs. Frederic Sharp. 700 S. 3rd Ave., Maywood, 111.

Butter Dough

1/2 cup butter, 1 tablespoon sugar, mixed with 1 1/2 cups flour. 1 tablespoon water, yolk of 1 egg. Cut the dough into strips, place apples between them. Fry in lard, and sprinkle with sugar. - Mrs. Klug, 25 N. 5th Ave., Maywood, 111.

Checkerboard Layer Cake

Light part: cream together 1 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup butter and whites of 3 eggs; add 1/2 cup milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar, 2 cups flour, lemon or vanilla, Dark part; cream together 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup molasses, and 1/4 cup butter; add 1/4 cup milk, yolks of 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar, 1 teaspoon each of cloves and nutmeg, 2 cups flour. This will make 3 layers. Arrange the batter on tins in alternate rows of dark and light, so that when the cake is cut it will resemble a checkerboard. - Mrs. C. C. Cash, Hubbard Woods, 111.

Cherry Cake

Beat together 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup cherry preserves, without pits, 2 eggs; add 1 tablespoon sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, 2 heaping cups flour. - Mrs. Ruth McLelland, Qak Park, 111.

Chocolate Cake

To 1/2 cup chocolate, grated, add 1/2 cup sweet milk and 1/2 cup brown sugar. Boil all together until thick as cream, and let cool; add 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 2 eggs, 2/3 cup milk, vanilla flavoring. Mix well, beat in the boiled mixture, add 2 cups of flour, sifted with a heaping teaspoon of baking powder. Bake in layers, and put together with chocolate filling. - Mrs. Dallas Dillon, Forest Park, 111.

Cider Cake

5 cups flour. Work 1 cup butter to a cream, beat 5 eggs and 3 cups sugar together; pour 2 cups cider, in which 2 teaspoons of soda are dissolved, on 2 cups flour; add spice to taste; when the oven is ready mix all together, and bake. - Mrs. Leonard Lambert, Franklin Park, 111.