Potato Chocolate Cake

Mashed potatoes, 1 cup. Flour, 2 cups. Eggs, 4. Sugar, 2 cups. Milk, 1/2 cup.

Nut meats, 1 cup. Baking powder, 3 1/2 teaspoons. Chocolate, 2 squares. Shortening, 2-3 cup. Cinnamon and nutmeg, 1 tea-spoon.

Clove, 1/2 teaspoon.

Cream shortening and sugar, add hot mashed potatoes, well beaten eggs, melted chocolate and milk. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and spices and add. Lastly stir in chopped nut meats.

Spice Cake

Sour cream, 1/2 cup. Sugar, 1 cup (scant). Shortening, 1 teaspoon (heap-ing). Egg, 1.

Ginger, 1/2 teaspoon. Cinnamon. 1/4 teaspoon.

Clove, 1/4 teaspoon. Nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon. Salt, 1/2 teaspoon. Soda, 1/2 teaspoon. Flour, 1 1/2 cups. Molasses, 1/2 tablespoon.

Raisins, 1/2 cup.

Mix in order given sifting dry ingredients together. Flour raisins and add last. M. C. N., Danvers.

Molasses Orange Cake

Butter, 1/2 cup. Molasses, 1 cup. Orange, 1. Egg, 1.

Pastry flour, 2 cups.

Salt, 1 teaspoon.

Baking powder, 1 1/2 teaspoons.

Cold water, 1/2 cup.

Mix the butter, molasses, juice, shredded pulp and grated rind of the orange, and the egg, well beaten. Add the pastry flour sifted with salt and baking powder, alternately with the cold water. Beat well together and bake in a shallow pan in a quick oven.

Eggless Date Cake

Sugar, 1 cup. Butter, 1/2 cup. Sour milk, 1 cup. Raisins, 1 cup.

Dates, 1 cup. Flour, 2 cups. Clove, 1 teaspoon. Soda, 1 teaspoon.

Salt, a pinch.

Cream butter and sugar, add sour milk and stir in flour mixed and sifted with soda, salt and clove. Lastly beat in raisins and chopped dates, previously dredged with flour. Frost with white frosting decorated with halves of dates.

Lemon Custard Sandwiches

Lemons, 2. Egg yolks, 3.

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

Currant jelly.

Grate the rind of the lemons, add the juice and beaten egg yolk, sugar and butter. Thicken in a double boiler, after beating well, then spread between slices of sponge cake. Garnish each sandwich with a square of currant jelly.

Silver And Gold Layer Cake

Silver part:

Sugar, 2 cups.

Butter, 2-3 cup. Milk, 2-3 cup.

Baking powder, 3 heaping tea-spoons. Flour, 3 cups. Egg whites, 8.

Cream butter and sugar, add milk, mix, and add baking powder sifted with flour. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in 2 layer cake tins.

Gold part:

Sugar, 1 cup.

Butter, 1/2 cup.

Milk, 1/2 cup.

Baking powder, 1 1/2 teaspoons.

Flour, 1 5/8 cups. Egg, 1. Egg yolks, 7. Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon.

Figs, 1 pound.

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs well beaten, milk and flour sifted with baking powder and spice. Put 1/2 of this mixture in a pan and lay on it the figs, chopped and floured. Put on this the remaining dough and bake. Put layers together while warm with boiled icing thickened with cocoanut, having the gold layer between the 2 silver ones. Mrs. J. L. S., Foxboro.