Apple Sauce Cake

Sugar, 1 cup. Butter, 1/2 cup. Soda, 1 teaspoon.

Sour apple sauce. 1 cup. Flour, 1 3/4 cups. Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon.

Clove and nutmeg, 1 teaspoon each.

Cream butter and sugar. Dissolve soda in a little warm water and add to apple sauce. Lastly stir in flour mixed and sifted with spices. Mae D., Winthrop.

German Apple Cake

Flour, 2 cups.

Baking powder, 2 teaspoons.

Egg, 1.

Butter, 1/2 cup. Salt, 1 teaspoon. Milk, 1/2 cup.

Apples.

Sift flour, salt and baking powder, rub in butter and stir in well beaten egg and milk. Grease a large shallow pan and spread the dough over it 1/2 inch thick. Pare and core apples and cut in eighths. Press them into the dough in close even rows, spread with butter, sprinkle thickly with sugar and cinnamon or nutmeg and bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes.

Ginger Gems

Butter, 2 tablespoons. Sugar, 1 cup. Molasses, 1 cup. Chopped preserved ginger, 2 tablespoons.

Powdered mace, 1 teaspoon. Sour cream or milk, 1 cup. Baking soda, 1 teaspoon. Flour, 5 cups.

Put the butter, sugar and molasses in a saucepan and warm slightly but do not allow to melt. Beat well for 10 minutes. Add the ginger, mace and gradually the sour cream or milk. Sift the soda with the flour twice and add to mixture. Fill buttered and floured gem pans 2-3 full and bake in a hot oven.

Pineapple Cake

Flour, 1/2 pound. Butter, 1/4 pound.

Eggs, 3.

Sugar, 1/2 pound.

Baking powder, 1 teaspoon. Crystallized pineapple, 1/2

pound. Almonds, 1 ounce. Essence of pineapple, few

drops.

Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten eggs, pineapple chopped coarsely, shredded almonds and flour and baking powder sifted together. Mix thoroughly and bake in moderate oven.

Mrs. M. N. 0. P., Boston.

Bisque Cake

Powdered sugar, 2 cups. Butter, 1 scant cup. Milk, 1 cup.

Flour, 3 cups. Egg whites, 5. Baking powder, 1 teaspoon.

Vanilla.

Cream butter and sugar, stir in milk, add flour and baking powder sifted together, and fold in very lightly the stiffly beaten egg whites. Flavor and bake in 3 layers.

Icing :

Egg yolks, 5. Confectioner's sugar.

Hickory nuts, 1 cup. Vanilla.

Beat egg yolks thoroughly and add enough sugar to make stiff enough to spread. Chop nuts fine and add with a drop of vanilla.

M. I. L., Roxbury.

Cocoa Cake

Sugar, 1 cup.

Lard or butter, 4 teaspoons.

Salt, a pinch.

Dry cocoa, 1/2 cup.

Sour milk, 1 cup. Soda, 1 teaspoon. Flour, 1% cups. Vanilla, 1/2 teaspoon.

Cream sugar and shortening together. Add sour milk, soda dissolved in a little hot water and dry ingredients mixed and sifted together. Lastly add flavoring. For icing add a small piece of butter to confectioner's sugar and mix with a little hot milk. Add a handful of walnut meats chopped.