Buttermilk Cake

1 1/2 cups buttermilk, 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup chopped raisins, 1 cup currants, 1 cup English walnuts cut fine, 3 1/2 cups flour, 2 tsp. baking soda, 1/2 tsp. cloves, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon. Bake in loaf.

- Miss- Eleanor L. Bryant.

Burnt Sugar Cake

1 1/2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, beaten yolks of 3 eggs, 1 1/2 cups flour. Beat 5 minutes, add 4 tsp. burnt sugar. 2 tsp. baking powder, 1 cup flour, vanilla, and the whites of 3 eggs folded in slowly. Bake in either layer or loaf. Cover with boiled white icing.

To Make Burnt Sugar

Burn 1/2 cup sugar, and then dissolve with 1/4 cup water. - Mrs. C. J. Preston.

Cake Without Eggs Or Butter

Boil for 20 minutes the following: 2 cups water, 1 tbsp. lard, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup currants, 1 tsp. each of nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice. Let cool and add 3 cups of flour. Dissolve 1 tsp. baking powder in 2 tsp. lukewarm water and add, stirring well. Bake for 1 hour or more in slow oven.

- Mrs. Thomas Savage.

Cream Cake

3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 3 tbsp. water, 1 1/2 cups flour, 2 tsp. baking powder. Bake in jelly cake pans.

Cream

1 pt, milk, 1 egg, 1 1/2 tbsp. cornstarch, 2 tbsp. sugar. Add chocolate to cream if desired.

- Mrs. Hu Maxwell.

Cherry Cake

1 1/4 cups sugar, 3/4 cup butter, 1 tsp. soda dissolved in 1 cup sour milk, yolks of 3 eggs, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 2 cups flour, 1 cup of canned cherries (drained).

- Mrs. I. P. Berry.

Crumb Cake

2 cups flour, 1 1/2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter. Crumb together as for biscuits. Take out 1/2 cup to cover top of cake when ready for the oven. To remainder add 2 tsp. baking powder, 2 eggs well-beaten, 3/4 cup sweet milk. This cake requires no icing.

- Mrs. C. M. Munson.

Canada War Cake

2 cups brown sugar, 2 cups hot water, 2 top. lard. 1 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. cloves, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1 pkge. raisins.

Boil all for 5 minutes. When cool, add 1 tsp. soda dissolved in hot water, and 3 cups flour. Bake in 2 loaves - 45 minutes. - Mrs. Bliss Langill.

First Cake

(Named because it is a good recipe to teach a child. It does not fail.)

1 cup sugar, 1 tbsp. lard (rounded), 1 egg and 1 yolk, 1 cup milk, 2 rounded tbsp. cocoa, 1 tsp. soda, 1 rounded cup of flour, vanilla and salt.

White Icing

7/8 cup sugar, 3 tbsp. cold water, 1 unbeaten egg white.

Mix, put into a double boiler over boiling water and beat for 7 minutes with a dover beater. Take from fire and beat until thick. - Mrs. J. C. Murley.

Favorite Cake

(A cake baked alter this recipe won a price of $1,000.) 1/2 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 eggs, 1 cup milk, 2 tsp. cocoa, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 2 1/2 cups flour sifted with 2 tsp. baking powder. - Mrs. V. A. Beckman.

Feather Cake

3 eggs well-beaten, add 1 cup sugar and beat again. Sift 1 cup flour with 1 tsp. baking powder and add a little at a time. Heat 1/2 cup milk and 1 tsp. butter to boiling point and add hot to other mixture. Bake in ungreased pan 20 minutes. Have oven very hot at first.

- Miss Mattie Nelson.