Jam Cake

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 cups flour 1 cup jam

3 eggs

3 tablespoons sour milk 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon cloves 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon soda

Cream butter and sugar, add sour milk, jam and spices. Sift flour to which soda has been added. Stir in well beaten eggs. Bake in moderate oven in layers. Use Cream Filling No. 2.

Layer Cake

2 cups sugar

3 eggs

3/4 cup cornstarch

1 cup milk

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

3/4 cup butter

2 cups flour

3 level teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon extract of lemon Juice 1/2 lemon

Cream butter and sugar. Add yolks of eggs beaten light, flour, cornstarch sifted with baking powder, alternating the flour with one cup of milk. Beat thoroughly, add extract, lemon juice and fold in the stiffly beaten whites. Bake in layers and put together with Cream Filling No. 1.

Minute Cake

2 eggs

1 heaping cup flour (without sifting) 1 scant cup sugar

3 tablespoons chocolate

2 heaping teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla Milk Butter size of an egg

Measure dry ingredients and put into sifter; sift into mixing bowl. Take same cup and put a small quantity of milk into it, break eggs into cup without beating, melt butter and put into cup, then fill up cup with milk and stir into the flour mixture, add vanilla. Bake in two layers in moderate oven. Use Cream Filling No. 3.

A splendid cake that never fails and keeps moist several days.

Mocha Cake

1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup milk 1 cup flour

1 egg

1 heaping tablespoon butter

1 heaping teaspoon baking powder

2 squares melted chocolate 1/4 teaspoon salt Vanilla

Cream butter and sugar, add yolks of eggs, salt, milk, vanilla, flour, chocolate and baking powder. Mix well and add white of eggs. Bake in two layers in hot oven. Use Mocha Filling.

Molasses Cakes

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup shortening 1 cup molasses

1 teaspoon ginger

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 egg

1 cup sour milk

2 teaspoons soda (level)

2 tablespoons boiling water 2 1/2 cups flour

Put into a warm bowl the sugar, shortening, which should be measured scantily, molasses, ginger, salt, cinnamon. Set bowl on back part of range until ingredients have become warm; then remove to table, add egg unbeaten and beat thoroughly. Now add milk and soda dissolved in boiling water. Stir well, then beat in flour. Bake cakes in buttered muffin-pans in moderate oven about twenty minutes. This amount will make two dozen cakes.

Nut Cake No. 1

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup sweet milk

3/4 cup chopped nuts

4 egg whites

1 1/2 cups flour 1 heaping teaspoon baking-powder 3/4 teaspoon vanilla

Cream butter and sugar, add milk, then flour with which baking powder has been sifted, add vanilla and whites of eggs well beaten. Bake in moderate oven.