Strawberry Caramel Cake

½ cup brown sugar,

½ cup preserved strawberries,

½ cup milk,

¾ cup butter,

3 eggs,

2 teaspoons baking powder.

Enough flour to give usual cake thickness. Cream butter and sugar together, then add yolks of eggs, strawberries and vanilla. Stir well, add milk and the whites of eggs beaten stiff, the flour and baking powder, beat 5 minutes. Bake. Filling: Boil 2Yl cups brown sugar, butter size of an egg, ½ cup water, for 3 minutes, then add ½ cup cream, ½ teaspoon vanilla, stir well. Boil slowly until it forms a soft ball, when dropped into cold water. Pour slowly into a vessel and beat until thick. If it fails to thicken boil a little longer or if too hard add a little more cream. 7 Mrs. J. H. Primm, Chicago, Ill.

Sour Milk Cake

1½ cups sugar,

3 eggs,

½ scant teaspoon soda,

Grated rind of 1 lemon,

½ cup butter or drippings,

1 cup sour milk,

2½ cups flour (with 1 teaspoon baking powder).

Cream butter and sugar and beat eggs separately, then mix sour milk with soda, sift flour with baking powder 3 times, then stir batter briskly, put in slow oven at first, for 1 5 or 20 minutes, then increase heat until brown.

Mrs. John Kelly.

Lemon Cake

2 cups sugar,

3 cups sifted flour, ½ cup butter,

2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup milk, White 4 eggs.

Mix ingredients as in all cakes. Icing: Whites of two eggs, 2 cups powdered sugar, juice of two lemons. - Sarah E. McFall.

Orange Cake

Two cups sugar, ½ cup butter, juice of one large orange and enough water to make a cupful, 2 eggs, 3 egg yolks, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Grate the rind of the orange into boiled icing.

Mrs. W. B. Elston.

1-2-3-4 Cake

1 cup butter,

2 cups sugar,

3 cups flour,

4 eggs,

1 heaping teaspoon baking powder,

¾ cup milk,

Vanilla.

Mrs. John Bossard, Peru, Ind.

Eggless, Butterless, Fruitless Cake

1 cup brown sugar,

1½ cup seeded raisins,

½ cup nut meats,

1 teaspoon cloves, also cinnamon,

½ cup lard or drippings, 1 cup water, ¼ nutmeg, Little salt.

Put all this in sauce pan and boil 3 minutes, stir in 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in a little warm water and stir in while warm 2 cups of flour and 1 teaspoon baking powder. Bake 1 hour in moderate oven.

Lucie W. Armstrong.

Macaroon Cake

3 eggs,

2 tablespoons butter,

1 teaspoon cream tartar,

1 cup sugar,

1 cup flour,

½ teaspoon soda.

Cream butter and sugar, add yolks of eggs, sift cream of tartar and soda in flour and add whites of eggs well beaten. Bake in two layers. Custard Filling. Beat 1 egg in ½ cup milk, add 1 tablespoon flour stirred in ½ cup sugar and add to milk. Cook in double boiler till thick. Flavor.

Miss Blanche Gealey, Chicago, Ill.