"With weights and measures just and true,

Oven of even heat, Well buttered tins and quiet nerves,

Success will be complete."

Soft Ginger Bread.

One and a half cups sifted flour, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup molasses, 1-3 cup butter, 1 egg, 3/4 teaspoon soda. Add ginger and spice to taste. Bake in shallow pan about 20 minutes.

Mrs. Gilmer.

Ginger Bread.

Half cup white sugar, 1/2 cup molasses, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup milk, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves, 1 small teaspoon soda, flour to thicken as for ordinary cake. Very nice.

Mrs. Offenbach.

Ginger Bread.

Half cup sugar and 1-3 cup butter creamed. 1 egg. 1/2 teaspoon soda in 1/2 cup hot water. 1/2 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon ginger, 2 cups flour, pinch of salt.

Mrs. Countryman.

Ginger Bread.

Half cup sugar, 1/2 cup molasses, 1 egg, shortening the size of an egg, 1 level teaspoon soda dissolved in hot water. 1 teaspoon ginger, 2-3 cup cold water. 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt. Mix in order given.

Mrs. Jeter.

Good Soft Girger Bread.

One cup molasses, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup sour milk, 1/2 cup butter, 2 eggs, teaspoonful soda, ginger and spices to taste.

Mrs. M. R. Matthews.

Soft Ginger Cake.

Mix together 1 cupful of brown sugar and 3/4 of a cupful of butter and lard mixed. Add 1 egg, well beaten, and 1 cupful of molasses, also 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon and ginger. Into 1 cupful of boiling water stir 2 even teaspoonfuls of powdered soda. Fold in 3 cupfuls of flour. Bake with a slow fire for 1/2 hour.

Mrs. John T. Stivers.

Spice Cake.

One and a half cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 1/2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and cloves, and 1/2 teaspoon ginger. One cup raisins or currants is an improvement.

Mrs. L. G. Hoyt.

Spice Cake.

One and a half cups sugar, 1 cup sour milk. 1/2 cup butter, 1 teaspoon soda, spice, 2 1/2 cups, flour, 1 cup chopped raisins, or 1 cup chopped walnuts may be added. For spice 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Half teaspoon each of cloves and ginger is good.

Mrs. Charles S. McKelvey.

Molasses or Spice Cake.

This cake is fine when eggs are high; try it: 1/2 cup molasses, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter or lard, 1/2 cup water, 2 cups flour, 1 egg, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 1 tea-spoonful each cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg.

Molasses Cake.

One and a half cups molasses, 1/2 cup sugar, 3 cups flour, 1 level teaspoonful soda, 1/2 tablespoonful of butter, 1 egg, 1 cup boiling water, added the last thing. Mix molasses, sugar and butter together, and heat just a little. Then add egg, soda and flour. The flour should be sifted before measured.

Marble Cake.

Three cups granulated sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup milk, 8 whites of eggs beaten stiff, 5 cups flour, 3 tea-spoons baking powder. For the colored part - 1 tea-spoon ground cloves, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1/2 tea-spoon nutmeg.

Mrs. Hege.