How To Make White Nut Cake

3/4 cup butter

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 1/2 cups milk

2 1/2 cups flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 cup walnut meats

Whites of 6 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually, then alternately add the milk with the flour which has been mixed and sifted with the baking powder. Reserve two tablespoons of the flour to place on the broken nut meats. Beat the egg whites stiff. When these are half done add the cream of tartar. Fold in the whites and then the nuts. Add the flavoring and bake in a loaf cake tin for fifty minutes in a slow oven.

How To Make Gingerbread

1/4 cup Wesson oil

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg

1 3/4 cups flour

1 teaspoon soda

2 teaspoons ginger

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup molasses

1/2 cup sour milk

Mix the oil, sugar, salt and egg well beaten. Mix and sift the flour with the soda, ginger, cinnamon. Add the milk to the molasses and add this alternately with the dry ingredients. Beat thoroughly. Bake in a moderate oven for twenty-five to thirty minutes. Do not use too dark a molasses as it will make this bitter. This may be served with chocolate sauce or whipped cream as a dessert.

How To Make Brownies

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup melted butter

1 egg

2 squares chocolate

1/2 cup flour

3/4 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup nuts

1/4 teaspoon salt

Add the melted butter to the sugar. Add the egg well beaten, and then the melted chocolate. Add the flour and salt and lastly the nuts and vanilla. Bake in a thin sheet in a dripping pan for thirty minutes in a slow oven.

How To Make Burnt Caramel Cake

Cream one and one-half cups of sugar, one-half cup butter and yolks of two eggs. Add one cup of water, two cups pastry flour, three teaspoons caramel and a pinch of salt. Beat five minutes. Add one-half cup flour mixed with two teaspoons baking powder. Fold in the whites of two eggs. Bake in a moderate oven until it will not stick to a toothpick.

How To Make Caramel

Melt one-half cup sugar in an iron skillet. Burn to a rich brown. Add one-half cup hot water. Boil to a thick syrup.

How To Make Scotch Shortbread

1 cup sweet butter

1 cup salt butter

1 cup light brown sugar

4 cups flour

2 teaspoons vanilla

Cream the butter and sugar for one-half hour. Add the flour slowly, rubbing it into a thick paste. Knead for twenty minutes. Bake one-half inch thick in diamond shaped squares in a very slow oven until golden brown. Keep in tin.

How To Make Rocks

3/4 cup butter

1 1/2 cups light brown sugar

2 eggs

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons vanilla

1/2 teaspoon soda

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

3/4 cup raisins

3/4 cup nuts

1 3/4 cups flour

Cream the butter and sugar together. Add the eggs well beaten. Mix the flour with the salt, soda and cinnamon. Add three tablespoons of the dry ingredients to the nuts and raisins. Then add the dry ingredients to the butter and sugar mixture and beat thoroughly. Add the nuts, raisins and vanilla. Bake on a greased baking sheet for twenty minutes in a moderately hot oven. Drop these cookies by teaspoon one inch apart.