Plain Fruit Cake

One cupful of sour cream, one cupful of brown sugar, one-half cup-ful of molasses, three cupfuls of flour, one cupful of raisins, one cupful of chopped walnuts, spice to taste, one teaspoonful of soda in table-spoonful of hot water, one-half teaspoonful of salt, and one egg. - Mrs. T. H. Enderson.

Pork Cake

One full pound of salt pork chopped fine or ground. Pour over this one pint of boiling water. To this add two cups brown sugar, one cup molasses, one teaspoon soda, two teaspoons cinnamon, one-half teaspoon ground cloves, one-half teaspoon allspice, one nutmeg, one cup of chopped raisins, six cups of flour. Bake in ordinary bread pans in slow oven, one hour. - Dr. J. D. Merrill.

Chocolate Nut Cake

One pound of English walnuts, reserve forty-two unbroken halves, and chop fine the remainder. Beat to a cream one cup of granulated sugar and one-half cup of butter. Add two eggs (one at a time), and beat well. Stir in alternately one-half cup milk, one and one-half cups flour, adding one teaspoon Royal Baking Powder to the last half cup of flour. Bake in two layers. Butter a granite kettle, add two ounces of grated chocolate, three-fourths cup of light brown sugar and one-half cup of milk. Cook to the soft ball stage, add small piece of butter; remove from the fire and flavor with vanilla. To one-third of this add the chopped nut meats; stir until cool enough to spread between the layers. Cover top and sides, and on top arrange unbroken nut meats. Keep icing soft by placing pan in hot water.

Devil's Food

First Part. - One cup sugar, one-half cup sour milk, one-half cup butter, one teaspoon soda, two and one-half cups flour, one teaspoon vanilla, two eggs.

Second Part. - Two-thirds cup sugar, one-half cup sweet milk, one cup chocolate, yolks of two eggs, saving the whites for icing. Cook this part and stir when cool in the first part. - Mrs.Wm. Seil.

Chocolate Cream Cake

Cream. - Three-fourths cup grated chocolate (two squares Baker's Chocolate), one-half cup sweet milk, two-thirds cup dark brown sugar, and the yolk of one egg. Boil together until like custard and set away to cool.

Cake. - One cup dark brown sugar, one-half cup butter, two cups sifted flour, one-half cup sweet milk, two eggs, and flavor with vanilla. Beat the cake until light and then add the cream, then add one tea-spoonful soda dissolved in a little warm water.

Icing. - Take the juice of one lemon and stiffen to the proper con-sistency with powdered sugar. - Mary Melrose.

Devil's Food

Two cups of granulated sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of grated chocolate dissolved in one-half cup of hot coffee, one-half cup of sour milk with level teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in it. Three eggs beaten separately, three cups of flour. - Mrs. Fred Kivett.

Coffee Cake

Two eggs, two cups brown sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sour milk, one-half cup strong coffee, three cups flour, scant; one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, one teaspoon cinna-mon, one-half teaspoon cloves, one-half teaspoon spice, one teaspoon chocolate. - Mrs. S. A. Blood.