: CAKES — 33

SULTANA CAKE. 1 cup buiter, 4 eggs, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoonful baking

powder, 1 cup sugar, 1-2 lb. raisins, 1-2 lb. citron peel. ‘(Cream butter and sugar

add the eggs well beaten, then fruit and flour into which baking powder has
been sifted. ‘Bake an hour in slow oven.

APPLE SAUCE CAKE (Miss . Swaffer). 1-2 cup butter, 1 cup brown sugar,
_ 1,1-2 gup apple sauce, 1, 3-4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon all-
spice, 1 cup raisins. Cream butter, add sugar. Put baking soda into apple
-  gauce and beat well, then add to butter and sugar. Add all spice and flour and
stir in the raisins. Bake until done.

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SPONGE CAKE. 4 eggs, 1 cup flour, vanilla, 1 cup white sugar, salt. Beat
the eggs well, add sugar, then flour and salt. Cook in fairly hot oven.

CHOCOLATE CAKE (Mrs. A. E. Wood). 2 level tablespoons of butter and
9 tablespoons of cocoa melted together. Into th’s beat 1 cup of sugar and 1
unbeaten egg. Then add 3-4 cup sour milk, 1 cup flour with 1 teaspoon soda
siften into it. Beat all well. Flavor with a little vanilla. ,

LEMON CAKE (Mrs. H. C. L. Gregg). 2 cups pulverized sugar, 1-2 cup
butter, 3 eggs, 2,1-2 cups flour, 1 cup milk, 2 teaspoons baking powder, eae
rind of lemon, 1-2 teaspoon salt. (Bake 40 minutes.

Icinge—Whites of two eggs, 12 tablespoons pulverized sugar, juice and rina =
of one lemon.

DARK CAKE. 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 scant cup shortening, 1 and 1-2 cups
sour milk, 1-3 cup molasses, 1 large tea spoon soda, 1-2 teaspoon cloves,
cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. ‘iMake batter not too stiff. ‘Add currents or ’
‘raisins.

CREAM SPONGE CAKE (Hazel Swaffer). (Beat 2 eggs, add 1 cup Sweet
cream, 1 cup sugar, 1 and 1-2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder and flavor
to suit taste. .

ORANGE DATE CAKE (Miss M. Moore). ‘Boil till soft 1 orange sliced
fine, 1-2 cup water. Add 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1-4 cup: shortening, 1-2 cup sour Ye
milk mixed with 1 teaspoon (level) soda, pinch of salt, 1 cup raisins, 1 package Ps
dates (chopped). Flour to mix a stiff ‘batter. (Bake in 1 loaf 1 hour.

DEVIL’S FOOD (Mrs. Healey). 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 4-2 cup butter, 1-3 olf
chocolate (cocoa), 2 cups flour, 2-3 cup milk, 1 level teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon
baking powder. Method: ‘Cream. sugar and butter, add well beaten yolks of.
two eggs. Beat. Add cocoa mixed with a teaspoon of boiling water. Add milk aor
and soda (soda to be dissolved in milk). Add flour and 1 teaspoon baking .
powder. “Beat well. Lastly add the beaten whites of. eggs. This cake requires
a lot of beating. :

VELVET CAKE (Mrs. Pollock). 1 cup white sugar, 1-4 lb. butter, 2 cups |
flour, 1 cup citron peel and cherries, 2 egies, 1-2 cup cold water, 2 teaspoons
baking powder. Cream buiter and sugar. iBeat eggs seperately and then to-—
gether, add as ‘butter and sugar, then add cold water and flour with Baking
Powder sifted in. ‘Add /Peel and ‘Cherries last (floured). Bake (1 hour in mod- are
erate oven in loaf cake tin. « eee ee

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MILE A MINUTE CAKE (Mrs. J. H. Carson). i cup flour, 1 cup white
sugar, 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder, little salt. (Sift all these together,
then melt 1-4 cup butter, add to this 1 egg, fill up cup with sweet milk. Beat
well and bake in moderate oven. Use any kind of icing,

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