Cake Without Butter Or Milk

4 eggs. 3/4 cup hot water. 2 cups sugar. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 2 cups flour.

Beat eggs until light, add sugar gradually, beating hard. Stir in hot water in a fine stream and add the flour and baking powder together, after sifting several times. Bake as a loaf or in gem pans. One-fourth teaspoon salt could be added.

One Egg Cake

1/4 cup butter. 1 cup sugar. 1 egg. 2/3 cup milk. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 2 cups flour.

Cream the butter, add sugar gradually. Beat the egg and stir into butter and sugar mixture. Sift flour and baking powder together, then add flour and milk alternately. Flavor last. Bake thirty minutes.

Poor Man's Sponge Cake

2 eggs. 1 cup sugar. 1/2 cup hot water. 1/4 teaspoon salt. 1 cup flour. 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Beat yolks of eggs until thick, then beat in sugar gradually. Add the hot water, flour, salt, and baking powder, mixed and sifted together, then the extract, and last cut and fold in the egg whites beaten stiffly. Bake slowly in a shallow pan.

Hot Water Gingerbread

1 cup molasses. 1 1/2 teaspoons ginger. 1/2 cup boiling water. 1 teaspoon salt. 2 1/4 cups flour. 4 tablespoons melted butter. 1 teaspoon soda.

Add water to molasses. Mix and sift dry ingredients, combine mixtures, add butter, and beat vigorously. Pour into a greased shallow pan and bake thirty minutes.

Jumbles

1/3 cup butter. 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. 1/3 cup boiling water. 1/4 teaspoon salt. 1 cup molasses. Flour. 1 teaspoon soda.

Sift together dry ingredients. Pour the boiling water on the butter; stir until butter melts and add the dry ingredients with flour sufficient to make a batter that will drop from a spoon. Bake slowly on an inverted pan, previously greasing the bottom.

Eggless Fruit Cake

One pound salt pork chopped fine. Pour on this 1 1/2 pints boiling water, stirring constantly. Add 1 pound chopped raisins, 1 pound currants, 1/4 pound citron, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 tablespoon soda dissolved in warm water; 1 teaspoon each of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and flour until thick. Bake in a moderately heated oven.