Two cups of sugar, three eggs, two-thirds of a cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, three cups of flour with one tea-spoonful of cream-of-tartar mixed in it, half a teaspoonful of saleratus dissolved in the milk. Add a little salt, and flavor with essence of lemon or almond.

Put half the above mixture in two square or oblong pans. To the remainder add one tablespoonful of molasses, one large cup of raisins stoned and chopped, a quarter of a pound of citron sliced fine, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, half a tea-spoonful of clove and allspice each. Grate in a little nutmeg, and add one spoonful of flour. Put into two pans of the same size and shape as those above. Put the sheets together while warm, alternately, with a little jelly or raspberry jam between. Cut in thin slices for the table. It will cut most easily the day after it is baked.

It may be baked in one large pan, without the fruit, pouring in the dark and light in alternate layers. When baked thus, it is a handsome marble cake.