Holiday Cake

One cup shortening, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon salt, citron, 1 teaspoon ail kind of spices, 1-2 cup of water, 1 teaspoon soda, flour, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup currants. Mix , ter in the usual way making it quite thick with r, and add the fruit last. This makes 2 medium sized loaves ana will keep for weeks. Mrs. S. T. Weatherby.

Nut Cream Cake

One cup sugar, 1-2 cup water, 1-2 cup molasses, 1-2 cup butter, 2 cups flour, 1 cup walnuts, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 cup raisins, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 2 teaspoons cinnamon.

Baking is the principal thing, which should require about one hour. Miss Robertson.

Fruit Cake

One flour, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 7 eggs, 1-2 cup asses, -2 teaspoon soda, 1-2 lb. citron, 1 lb. raisins, 1 lb. currants, 1 lb. blanched almonds, 1 tablespoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon cloves, and 5 drops essence almonds.

Mrs. Starbird.

Christmas Fruit Cake

Three cups butter, 1 qt. sugar, 3 pints flour, 1-2 pint molasses, 1-2 cup milk, 12 eggs, 5 lbs. raisins, 2 lbs. currants, 3-4 lb. citron, 1 1-2 lbs. walnuts. Cinnamon, cloves, allspice and mace to taste.

Flour the fruit well and add it to the batter last. Bake in deep pans in a moderate oven 3 or 4 hours. This makes 4 or 5 good sized loaves and will keep for years.

Mrs. William McGillivray.

Sunshine Cake

Seven eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup pastry flour, 1-4 teaspoon cream tartar, extract of orange, little salt.

Sift the flour, salt and cream of tartar 4 times, beat the yolks light, beat in the sugar, then flour, and last the well whipped whites of the eggs. Henrietta Connick.

Apple Fruit Cake

One cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup milk. 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 3 1-2 cups flour, 2 cups raisins, 3 cups dried apples, 2 cups molasses, nuts, spices.

Soak the apples over night and stew 2 hours in the molasses, beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add milk in which soda is dissolved, then the beaten eggs, flour, raisins and apples. Stir well, pour into pans, bake 1 1-2 hours, adding nuts and spices to taste. Mrs. Fenwick.

Boiled Raisin Cake

One and a half cups seeded raisins, cover with boiling water and let simmer 20 minutes. Dredge with flour and add last: 3-4 cup sugar, 1-2 cup butter, 1 1-2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon cinnamon.

Mrs. G. Walters.

Washington Loaf Cake

Three cups sugar, 2 scant cups butter, 1 cup sour milk, 5 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 3 tablespoons cinnamon, 1-2 nutmeg, 2 cups raisins, 1 cup currants, 4 cups flour.

Mix the batter in the usual way, dredge flour over the fruit and add it last. This cake should bake slowly with the heat of the oven even temperature. Miss Augusta Jacobson.

Cheap Fruit Cake

One cup sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup sour milk, 1 cup shortening, 4 1-2 cups flour, 1 cup currants, I cup raisins, 2 teaspoons soda, spice to taste, salt. Mrs. Richardson.

Pork Cake (Fruit)

One lb. fat salt pork, 1 pint boiling water, 3 cups brown sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon lemon extract, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 lb. raisins, 1 lb. currants.

Run the salt pork through a grinder and pour the boiling water on it. Cheap and excellent to keep for lunches.

Mrs. Cummins.