Coffee Cake

One cup butter, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup strong cold coffee, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon cloves, 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 1 nutmeg, 1 heaping teaspoon soda, 4 or 5 cups flour, 1 lb. of raisins. Bake I hour in a moderate oven. Mrs. C. H. Starbird.

Yellow Cake

Yolks of 7 eggs, 1 large cup sugar, 1-2 cup milk, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 1-2 cups flour, 2 tablespoons baking powder, vanilla. Stir butter, sugar and eggs together for ten minutes, sift in the baking powder and flour, then add the milk and beat 5 minutes. Bake either in loaves or layers.

Mrs. W. J. Crane.

Gold Cake

Two whole eggs, yolks of 8 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 1-2 cups butter, 4 cups flour, 3 cups sugar, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream tartar, citron. Cream the butter and sugar, beat the yolks and whites separately, add the milk, then the flour, soda and cream tartar sifted together, then the sliced citron, and currants if liked. mrs. C. B. Frost.

White Cake

One cup sugar, 1-2 cup butter, 1-2 cup milk, 1 1-2 cups flour, whites of 4 eggs, 1 heaped teaspoons baking powder, flavoring. Cream the butter and sugar, add the milk, then the flour, and baking powder sifted together 6 times, and the whites of eggs to a froth. Mrs. O. W. Lord.

White Cake

Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 1 cup corn starch. 2 teaspoon cream tartar, 1-2 teaspoon soda, 7 eggs (whites).

Dissolve the soda in milk and add the stiffly beaten whites last. This makes 3 layers.

Filling: Cook until it will rope 1 cup sugar, 5 tablespoons boiling water, and just before removing it from the fire drop in 1-2 lb. of marshmallows broken in small pieces, and whip the mixture into the white of 1 egg.

Mrs. I. A. Russ.

Orange Cake

Five eggs, 2 cups sugar, 1-2 cup butter, 2 1-2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1-2 cup water, 1 orange.

Cream the butter and sugar, separate and beat the eggs, sift the flour and baking powder together, mix in the usual way, adding the grated rind and juice of the orange, saving the whites of 3 eggs and 1 tablespoon of orange juice for the icing. Mrs. W. W. Warren, Tomah.

Custard Cake

One cup sugar, 1 1-2 cups flour, 1 heaped teaspoon baking powder, pinch of salt, 4 eggs, 8 tablespoons' cold water.

Sift sugar, flour, baking powder and salt together 4 times, beat the eggs separately, add the cold water, beat all together. Bake in 2 layers in a quick oven, split while hot and fill with the made cream.

Killing: One cup sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 eggs, 2 cups of milk, flavor with vanilla. Cook and cool slightly. This rule makes a good jelly role. H. H.

Layer Cake

One and a half cups flour, 1 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 2 eggs, 4 teaspoons butter, 1-2 cup milk.

Sift flour, sugar and baking powder together and add 2 eggs beaten with the melted butter and the milk last. Flavor-ing. Mrs. George Taylor.