Fig Frosting

One pound of figs, chop fine; pour over them a teacup of water and add a half cup of sugar. Cook until soft and smooth; when cold spread between layers of cake. A white boiled icing over the cake greatly improves it. Flavor the last with bitter almond and vanilla. May I. Whitham.

Ice Cream Cake

Three-fourths cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup milk, whites of seven eggs, one generous teaspoon baking powder, three and a half cups pastry flour. Cream together the butter, and half cup sugar, add other cup sugar and cream again; add alternately the flour and milk until all but half cup of the flour has been added. Beat the whites of the eggs adding to them one-fourth teaspoon cream tartar. Add the baking powder to the reserved half cup flour and beat thoroughly into the batter. Add the beaten whites, flavor with half teaspoon lemon and half teaspoon orange. Bake in two layers.

Lillian D. Merritt.

Mrs. C. W. Cole.

Ribbon Cake

One cup butter, two cups sugar, four eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately, one cup milk, three and a half cups flour, half teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream tartar. Divide batter into three parts, bake two parts as plain cake. Add to remaining batter half cup raisins, one cup currants, one-fourth pound citron, two teaspoons molasses, mixed mace and cinnamon. Bake and put fruit part between two plain parts with jelly between. Mrs. E. M. Miller.

Black Joe Cake

Cream together one cup white sugar with half cup butter, add yolks of two eggs, half cup of milk and two and a half cups of flour into which two teaspoons of Royal Baking powder have been sifted. To this mixture add half cake grated chocolate, half cup milk and one cup white sugar, which have been boiled together. Beat the whites of the two eggs and mix with above batter and bake in two layers.

Mrs. H. B. Eshbach.

Potato Cake

Two cups sugar, one cup butter, half cup of sweet milk, one cup of mashed potatoes, one cup English walnuts, two cups flour, half cup melted chocolate, four eggs, three teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon each of lemon, vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, allspice and nutmeg. Put together with white or chocolate frosting. Mrs. Will Hall.

Minnie Laird.

Maude S. Cake

Two cups of brown sugar, half cup of butter, three eggs, one teaspoon vanilla, half cup of boiling water poured on two squares of chocolate, half cup sweet milk, two cups of flour, one level teaspoon soda. Mrs. D. N. Blazer.

Spice Cake

One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of milk, sweet or sour, one teaspoon baking powder or soda, two eggs, one teaspoon flavoring, one teaspoon allspice, one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon cloves, one and one-half cups flour.