Nut Cake No. 2

1/2 cup shortening 1 1/2 cups sugar 3/4 cup milk 1 cup chopped nuts

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

Whites of 4 eggs

Cream butter and sugar, add milk, then flour and baking powder sifted together, nuts, vanilla and whites of eggs well beaten. Bake in moderate oven.

Orange Layer Cake

1 cup butter

2 cups sugar

1 cup cold water

3 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

3 eggs

1 tablespoon orange juice A little grated orange rind

Cream butter and sugar, add water, flour in which baking powder has been sifted, then eggs well beaten, orange juice and rind. Bake in layers. Use Orange Filling.

Potato Cake

2 cups sugar 2/3 cup butter

1 cup hot mashed potatoes 1/2 cup sweet milk or cold water

2 cups flour 4 eggs

2 teaspoons baking powder 2 squares grated chocolate 1 cup chopped walnuts 1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon 1 teaspoon powdered cloves Y2. teaspoon grated nutmeg

Cream butter and sugar, add yolks of eggs well beaten, flour mixed with baking powder, spices, milk, potatoes mixed with chocolate, walnuts and the whites of two eggs beaten stiff. The potatoes must be hot when mixed with the chocolate. Bake in loaf or layers and ice with White Icing. A delicious cake.

Prize Loaf Cake

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter or crisco (scant)

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk 1 1/2 cups flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 2 level tablespoons ground chocolate 1/2 cup seedless raisins 3/4 cup walnuts meats

Cream sugar and shortening, add egg yolks, beat well, add milk, then flour which has been sifted two or three times with baking powder. Add half teaspoon salt if crisco is used. Beat whites thoroughly and add carefully. Separate dough into even parts. To one add the chocolate or cocoa, which has been moistened with a little milk, then the raisins, and spices, if desired.

To the white part add the walnuts, cut into half inch pieces. Put a spoonful of light and then dark into cake pan until all is used. Bake forty-five minutes in slow oven. Frost with Chocolate Filling.

Prune Cake No. 1

1 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup nut meats 1 cup prunes 2 1/2 cups flour

1 cup prune juice

1 teaspoon soda (dissolved in warm water) Yolk of 2 eggs

Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolks, beat well, then add prunes cut fine, prune juice, soda, flour and nut meats. Bake fifty minutes.

Prune Cake No. 2

1 cup sugar

2 tablespoons butter

2 eggs 1 3/4 cups flour

3 teaspoons chocolate 1 cup chopped stewed prunes

1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in warm water 1 cup chopped walnuts 1 cup prune juice Spice, cinnamon, salt

Cream sugar, butter and eggs, add chocolate, spice, salt, stir well; add prunes, prune juice, nuts, mix well; then flour, lastly soda. Bake in layers in moderate oven. Use Cream Filling No. 1.

Quick Tea Cakes

1 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup milk

2 eggs

2 cups flour

2 heaping teaspoons baking powder

Put all together and beat four minutes with a silver fork. Flavor with vanilla and bake in gem pans in quick oven. One cup raisins improves cakes.

Snow Cake

1 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup milk 1 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder Whites of 4 eggs Flavoring

Cream butter, add sugar gradually, unbeaten whites, beat until foamy, add flavoring. Sift flour and baking powder twice, add to first mixture alternately with the milk. Bake in moderate oven.

Swiss Cake

1 cup cream 1 cup sugar 6 eggs

Enough flour to knead like bread

Mix, roll thin and fry same as doughnuts.

White Cake

2 cups sugar 1 cup butter 1 cup milk

3 cups sifted flour

2 teaspoons baking powder Whites of 5 eggs Flavoring

Cream butter and sugar, add milk, flavoring, flour sifted with baking powder and lastly well beaten whites.

For a yellow cake use yolks of eggs beating well and mixing with the creamed sugar and butter, then add the other ingredients.

White Layer Cake

1/3 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 1/4 cups flour 1/4 cup cornstarch 3 egg whites

1/2 cup milk

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract 1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Cream butter and gradually beat in sugar. Sift flour, cornstarch and baking powder, add alternately to cream mixture with a half cup milk, fold in the stiffly beaten whites, add extract. Use any preferred filling. Bake in layers.