Date And Nut Cake

Two eggs, ¾ cup of sugar, beaten together, 1 cup of dates, 1 cup of nuts cut in small pieces. To the beaten eggs and sugar, add 1 heaping tablespoon of flour, sifted with 1 teaspoon of baking powder, beat in thoroughly, then add dates and nuts, spread out very thin in buttered and floured tins. Bake in a moderate oven for about 20 or 25 minutes, test with straw, serve with whipped cream. This recipe should serve 9 people.

Mrs. Blanche Ottenheimer.

Nut Loaf Cake

½ cup butter, 1½ cups sugar, 3 eggs, 2½ cups flour,

1½ teaspoons baking powder, ½ cup milk, 1 cup nuts.

Rub the butter and sugar to a light cream. Add the eggs, which have been beaten, then the flour, sifted with the baking powder. Add the milk and nuts, making a rather firm batter. Bake in a paper lined cake pan in a steady oven thirty-five minutes. - Mrs. W. C. Tibbetts.

Burnt Leather Cake

1½ cups sugar,

4 eggs, beaten separately,

1 cup cold water, teaspoonful baking powder,

½ cup butter, 2½ cups flour, 1 teaspoonful vanilla.

Take one cup of sugar and heat in porcelain pan, brown and stir until intense smoke arises. Pour ½ cup boiling water into the mixture and boil one minute. Add three tablespoonsful of this mixture to the cake and one to the icing. Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, (saving out whites of 2 for frosting). Beat thoroughly. Add 2 cups flour, part of water and beat until smooth. Add remaining flour with baking powder in it, then burnt mixture and vanilla. Beat and bake. Will make two large layers. - Mrs. W. B. Dimmick.

Blitz Kuchen

¾ cup of sugar,

1 cup of sweet milk,

3 eggs beaten in 1 at a time,

½ cup of butter,

2 cups of flour,

3 level teaspoons baking powder,

Bake in a shallow pan, sprinkle powdered sugar, cinnamon and a few chopped nuts on top. - Mrs. J. F. Faber.

Jelly Roll

1 cup of sugar, 3 eggs,

1 cup of flour,

1 teaspoon of baking powder.

Stir well and spread thin on baking tin, bake quickly and turn out on cloth, spread well with jelly and roll. - Mrs. W. D. Starnes.

Almond Torte Cake

6 eggs, beaten separately,

½ lb. granulated sugar,

5 tablespoons cracker crumbs,

1 lb. ground almonds, Few drops lemon extract.

Grind almonds and cracker crumbs in food chopper. Beat eggs ½ hour, add ½ teaspoonful of cream of tartar to beaten whites of eggs. Add to beaten yolks of eggs the sugar gradually, then the ground almonds, then cracker crumbs and lastly the whites of eggs folded in. - Grace Straesser.

An Old German Almond Cake

1 lb. butter rubbed to a cream,

1 lb. sifted sugar, 3 whole eggs,

5 yolks of eggs,

¼ Lb- almonds, grated,

2 teaspoons baking powder,

Rind and little juice of lemon,

1 lb. flour,

1 scant teaspoon powdered cardamon, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, Whites 5 eggs, beaten stiff.

Sift flour and baking powder together and mix in order given. Bake in two deep pans. Put together with any preferred filling, or a plain frosting. - Mrs. Arthur Traeger.