Filling

2 cups of dark brown sugar, two-thirds cup of sweet cream, butter the size of an egg. Boil till mixture drops quite thick from spoon, then add 1 large teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat till filling gets light in color.

Mrs. O. T. Everhart.

Devil Cake, Layer

1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, yolks 3 eggs, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoonful soda, 2 cups flour, flavor with vanilla, 1/2 cup sweet milk, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cake chocolate, let come to a boil. When cold stir in first part.

Midnight Cake

1/2 cup butter, 2 cups brown sugar, 2 eggs, 1/4 cup boiling water, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1/4 cake chocolate, 3/4 cup boiling water, 2 1/2 cups flour, vanilla.

Mrs. Cora Weaver, Littlestown, Pa.

Mid-Night Cake

2 cups brown sugar, 1/2 cup shortening, 2 eggs, 2 cups flour, 1 level teaspoonful of soda dissolved in 1/2 cup of thick milk, 2 oz. melted chocolate, 1 cup of hot coffee, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat sugar, butter and eggs together, add melted chocolate and coffee. Let cool, mix flour and last add milk and soda. Very fine.

Fruit Cake

1 lb. sugar, 1 lb. flour, J lb. butter, 8 eggs, 2 lbs. raisins, 1 lb. currants, 1/2 lb. citron, 1/2 pt. grape juice, 1 tablespoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful allspice, 1 tablespoonful cloves, and 2 nutmegs.

Mrs. S. E. Trone.

Fruit Cake

1 lb. sugar, 1 lb. butter, 1 lb. flour, 1 lb. currants, 1 lb. citron, 10 eggs, 2 lbs. seedless raisins, 1 lb. seeded raisins, 2 teaspoonfuls mace, 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoonful baking powder, 2 wine glasses grape juice, 1 nutmeg.

Harriet S. Hoke.

Fruit Cake

1 lb. flour, 1 lb. sugar, 1 lb. butter, 3 lbs. raisins, 1 lb. figs, 1 lb. citron, 1/2 lb. almonds, broken, 10 eggs, 1 tablespoonful ginger, 1 tablespoonful allspice, 1 tablespoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful cloves, 1 teaspoonful mace, 1 grated nutmeg. Beat eggs separately. Cream butter and sugar. Mix sifted flour and spices. Bake in moderate oven. This will make 1 very large cake or 2 medium sized cakes.

Mrs. Hanson Robinson.

Fruit Cake

1 cup sugar, 2 cups molasses, 4 eggs, 1 cup butter, 1 cup thick milk, 2 teaspoonfuls soda, 6 cups flour, 1 lb. raisins, 1 lb. currants, a little citron. Take an extra quantity of flour to rub fruit in; spice to suit taste. Mrs. Edw. F. Redding.

Fruit Cake

1 lb. powdered sugar, 1 lb. butter, 1 lb. flour, 12 eggs, 1 lb. seeded raisins, 1 lb. seedless raisins, 1 lb. citron, 1/2 lb. figs, 1/2 lb. dates, 1 lb. currants, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 2 teaspoonfuls nutmeg, 1 teaspoonful cloves, 1 wine glass of grape juice. Bake 3 hrs. in slow oven. Mrs. Merle D. Bishop.

Fruit And Delicate Cake

1 lb. sugar, 4 eggs, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 lb. raisins, 2 1/2 cups flour, 2 1/2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Add raisins to half dough. The other half add 1 tablespoonful of nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoonful cloves, and 1 teaspoonful cinnamon.

Mrs. J. H. Mackleduff.