Devil's Cake

14 cup butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

3/4 cups finely minced dates

2 yolks of eggs

1/2. cup sour cream

1/2 teaspoon soda

1/2 cup wheat flour 1/2 cup barley flour 1/4 cup cocoa

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 whites of eggs

Mix in order given. Bake in a moderate oven.

Mrs. T. J. Gridley,

Dutch Bread

Put into a sifter 2/3 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoonful each of cinnamon, allspice and baking powder. Add 1/2 cup dates, 1/2 cup nut meats, 1 cup sour milk, 1 tablespoon shortening, yolk of 1 egg, 4 tablespoons orange marmalade (or any jam,) 1/4 tea-spoon soda. Salt.

Beat well, and bake in a loaf in a moderate oven.

Fruit Cake

Cream together 1/2 cup drippings or vegetable fat, 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup sugar; then gradually add 4 well beaten eggs. Add 1 cup molasses, 1/2 pound of currants, 1/2 pound of dates, 1 pound seeded raisins, 1/2 pound of shredded candied citron peel, 1/4 cup chopped nut meats, 1/2 cup fruit juice, 4 cups flour mixed and sifted with 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons powdered ginger, 1 teaspoon each of powdered cloves and cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix well, turn into a greased and papered cake tin, and bake in a moderately hot oven for 3 hours.

Gingerbread

Cream 1/2 cup butter with 1/2 cup sugar. Add 2 well beaten eggs. Beat this into 1 cup molasses and 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon, ginger and cloves. Add 1 cup boiling water in which dissolve 2 teaspoons soda. Finally beat in 2 1/2 cups flour sifted with 1 teaspoon baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt.

Beat thoroughly, and do not add any more flour though batter seems thin.

Pour in a dripping pan, sprinkle chopped dates and a few nuts over top, and bake slowly 45 minutes.

Mrs. H. A. Westerfield,

Coaehella, Calif.

Lightening Cake

1/3cup soft butter 1 1/3 cups brown sugar 2 eggs 1/2 cup milk

1 3/4 cups flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg

1/2 pound dates, stoned and cut in pieces

Put ingredients in a bowl and beat all together for three minutes. Bake in a buttered and floured cake pan thirty-five to forty minutes. If directions are followed this makes a very satisfactory cake; but if ingredients are added separately it will not prove a success. Mrs. G. Shope,

Coaehella, Calif.

Marble Cake (1 Egg)

1/2 cup violet shortening or Crisco

1/2 teaspoonful salt 3/4 cup milk

1 teaspoonful vanilla

2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

Brown Part

3 large tablespoonfulls batter Add cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg

1 teaspoonful cocoa or chocolate 1 cup dates, cut in small pieces

Cream shortening and sugar, add well beaten egg, vanilla and salt, sift baking powder and flour, stir into sugar mixture alternately with the milk, add well beaten white of 1 egg last. Beat a long time.

Place in alternate spoonfuls in a loaf cake pan, and bake in a moderate oven. Mrs. T. M. Miller,

Los Angeles, Calif.