3/4 cup of butter.

3/4 cup of sugar

3/4 cup dark molasses

1/4 teaspoonful soda sifted in the flour. 4 eggs.

1 tablespoonful mixed spices.

2 cups flour.

2 tablespoonfuls brandy. Juice of half a lemon. 1/4 cup of candied orange peel. 1/2 cup walnut meats chopped fine. 1/2 cup each of raisins, dates and citron.

Slice the citron and orange peel. Cream the butter and sugar, add spices and molasses, the beaten yolks of eggs, part of the flour, whites of eggs beaten stiff, lastly the fruit floured, and nuts. Bake in a slow oven for about an hour and a quarter.

Light Fruit Cake

Make a pound cake; add one cup of currants and raisins (one cup in all), and one-half cup of sliced citron, one tablespoonful of mixed spices, the juice and grated rind of half a lemon. Flour the fruit and add it last.