New England Election Cake With Dates

Cream 1/2 cup of butter and work with the hand into 1 cup light bread dough; add 1 egg, well beaten, 1 cup soft brown sugar, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1/2 cup chopped raisins, 1/2 cup dates, and 6 finely chopped figs.

Dredge fruit with a small amount of flour.

Mix and sift 1 1/4 cups flour with 1/2 teaspoonful soda.

1 teaspoonful cinnamon 3/4 teaspoonful cloves 3/4 teaspoonful mace

1/4 teaspoonful nutme1 1 teaspoonful salt

Add to first mixture and mix well. Put into a buttered bread pan, covered and let ris 1 1/4 hours.

Bake in a slow oven. Frost if desired.

Miss Alberta Metzler, Coachella, Calif.

One Egg Spice Cake

1/2 cup Crisco 1 cup sugar 1 cup sour milk 2 1/2 cups flour

1 egg

1 teaspoonful soda Cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves to taste 1 cup dates and raisins mixed

Combine in the usual way, and bake in a loaf.

Mrs. M. McLeish,

Riverside, Calif.

Plum Cake

1 pound flour 1/4 pound butter

2 ounces candied lemon peel 1/2 pint milk

1/2 pound sugar 1 teaspoonful soda

1/2 pound dates

Put in a basin, flour, sugar, dates, and sliced candied peel. Beat butter to a cream, and mix it with above ingredients, and milk. Stir in soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons milk; add to dough, and beat the whole until all is well mixed.

Put dough in a buttered tin, and bake from l 1/2 to

2 hours. Mrs. R. H. Postlethwaite,

Coachella, Calif.

Ribbon Cake (Layers)

2 cups sugar 2/3 cup butter

3 eggs

1 cup milk

3 cups flour

4 teaspoonfuls baking powder 1 teaspoonful flavoring

Bake 2/3 of the above. To the remaining add 1 table-spoonful of molasses, 1 cup chopped dates, spices and a trifle more flour. When cakes are baked, put together alternately with a very thin layer of jelly.

Sour Cream Cake

1 1/2 cups sour cream 1 1/2 cups sugar 3 eggs

1/2 cup each of dates and raisins

1 teaspoon soda

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder A little salt and flavoring

Mix, and bake in a loaf.

Mrs. R. F. Haish, Hollywood, Calif.

Three-Minute Date Cake

1/2 cup sweet milk 1 1/3 cups brown sugar 1/3 cup melted butter

1 3/4 cups flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Beat for three minutes, and bake in two layers for twenty minutes. Put "Date Orange Curd" between layers, and "Orange Icing" on top.

Mrs. J. G. Nusbaum, Coachella, Calif.

Waihi Cake (From New Zealand)

1/2 pound butter, beaten to a cream with the hand

1/2 pound sugar, added and beaten

4 eggs added one by one 1 pound of flour mixed with 4 level teaspoons baking powder

Add flour alternately with 1/2 cap warm milk.

Lastly add 1/2 pound of dates and 2 ounces candied peel cut fine. Can be baked in large tins or individuals,

Mrs. R. H. Postlethwaite,

Coaehella, Calif.

War Time Spice Cake

1/4 cup of Crisco 1/3 cup sugar 1/2 cup Karo

1 egg

1/3 cup milk, a pinch of ginger

1 teaspoonful of vanilla

3 teaspoonfuls baking powder

1/2 teaspoonful cinnamon 1/4 teaspoonful cloves 1/2 teaspoonful allspice A pinch of salt 1 cup cut dates 1 3/4 cup barley flour 1 egg-

Cream sugar, Crisco and egg yolk; add karo and stir, Add alternately the milk and dry ingredients sifted together. Add the flavoring, and fold in the well beaten whites. Bake in a moderate oven in a loaf.

White Cake

1 cup butter and 2 cups sugar creamed 1 cup sweet milk Whites of 8 eggs

3 1/2 cups flour with which sift 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder

1 teaspoonful vanilla or almond flavoring

Bake either as a loaf or in layers. Four whole eggs may be used instead of the 8 whites.

Use boiled frosting with 1/2 cup each chopped dates and nuts added. Mrs. A. G. Proctor,

Coachella, Calif.