Apple Sauce Cake

2 cups brown sugar,

Two-thirds cup butter,

1 cup raisins,

4 cups flour,

2½ cups apple sauce,

3 teaspoons soda in hot apple sauce, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon ginger, cinnamon, allspice.

Bake in moderate oven 30 minutes. - Mrs. J. R. Schnebly.

Blackberry Jam Cake

1 cup of brown sugar, 3 eggs,

1 cup sour cream,

¾ cup of butter,

1 cup of blackberry jam,

1 teaspoon each of cinnamon and clove, 2½ cups of flour.

Mrs. J. R. Pfander.

Jam Cake

1 cup sugar,

¾ cup butter, creamed,

1 cup jam,

3 eggs well beaten,

¾ cup sour milk.

2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, ½ teaspoon cloves, ½ teaspoon cinnamon, ½ teaspoon nutmeg.

Bake in layers and ice with boiled icing. Icing: - 1 cup sugar, ¼ cup hot water, boil together until mixture threads and pour into the beaten whites of an egg; add one-half teaspoon vanilla. - Mrs. C. T. Law.

Cup Cakes

1 cup of sugar,

1 cup of milk,

2 cups of flour,

2 teaspoons of baking powder,

1 cup of butter (cream),

2 eggs,

1 teaspoon of vanilla or lemon essence.

Put into moderate oven and add heat as they rise. Use muffin tins, serve hot or cold. - Mrs. L. C. Hinckle.

Cup Cakes

Two-thirds cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 1 cup milk,

3¼ cups flour,

4 teaspoons baking powder, ¼ teaspoon mace.

Cream the butter and sugar, add eggs well beaten. Mix and sift dry ingredients, add to sugar, eggs and butter, flour and milk alternately.

Mrs. S. J. Creviston.

Prune Cake

1 cup sugar,

1 cup sour or butter milk,

2 teaspoons soda, 1 teaspoon cloves, A little nutmeg, ½ cup butter,

1 cup well cooked unseasoned prunes, 1 whole egg or a yolk of 1,

1 teaspoon cinnamon,

2 cups of flour.

Bake in two layers or a loaf. Use either white or chocolate icing. Bake slowly. - Mrs. Jno. Dailey.

Date Loaf

1 ½ lbs. dates, 4 whites eggs, 4 tablespoons cracker crumbs,

½ lb. English walnuts,

2 cups sugar.

½ lb. candied peaches or pineapple.

One tablespoon vanilla, a little lemon and almond extract. Bake slowly in a greased pan with oiled paper 1 ½ hours, or steam for three hours. - Mrs. Jno. Dailey, Jr.

Date Cake

3 eggs,

1 cup sugar,

1 cup chopped dates,

1 cup chopped English walnuts,

One-third cup flour,

1 teaspoon of baking powder,

Pinch of salt.

Bake in slow oven twenty or thirty minutes. Can be cut into squares and served with cream. - Mrs. Wm. Heyl.

Nut Cake

½ cup butter,

½ cup sugar,

2 cups flour,

2 teaspoons baking powder,

Cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon flavoring, Whites of 4 eggs, 1 cup chopped nuts.

Mix in order given, bake and when cool, ice and decorate with nuts broken in halves. Icing: - Beat the yolks of three eggs until very light, whip in a pound or more of powdered sugar, add the juice of one lemon; beat ten minutes more and spread on cake. - Mrs. W. B. Burt.