Spread raspberry jam between layers
and ice with almond icing.
—Mrs. F. J. Bergmann.

MATRIMONIAL CAKE.
2 cups flour.
2 cups oatmeal.
1 cup brown sugar.
1 cup butter.
14 teaspoon salt.
14 teaspoon soda.

Mix as for pie crust, divide this
mixture into two parts and bake with
the following filling:

Boil—

14 lb. dates.
14 cup brown sugar.
1 tablespoon lemon juice.

Bake in medium oven for 30 min-
utes or until a golden brown.

—Mrs. M. Magnusson,
Flin Flon, Man.

MATRIMONIAL CAKE.
234 cups oatmeal (fine).
1 cup flour and teaspoon soda, sifted.
3%, cup melted butter.
1 cup brown sugar.

Mix first three ingredients like pie
crust. Add sugar, place % of this
over pan (9x12), press down a little,
cover with cooked dates and then
sprinkle the rest over the top to cover
so dates will not cook through. Bake
in medium oven.

Filling :—

1 small pkg. dates.
14 cup brown sugar.
1 cup water.
Boil and cool.
—Mrs. J. B. Johnson.

FRUIT SHORT CAKE
(Original Recipe)
2 cups flour.
3 level teaspoons baking powder.
Y% |b. shortening.
Grated rind of one orange
14 cup white sugar.
1 egg well beaten.
4 cup sour cream or milk.
Pinch of baking soda.

Sift flour, baking powder and salt.
Work in shortening. Then add orange
rind. Make a soft dough, knead as
little as possible. Divide dough in half
and roll each piece large enough to
cover a ten-inch layer cake tin, spread
melted butter over both layers, then

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put together and butter top. Bake 26
minutes in moderate oven, allow to
cool slightly then separate layers and
put fruit that has been previously pre-
pared, between layer and on _ top.
Serve with whipped cream.

Filling :— |
bananas (cut fine).
oranges.
peaches.
cup sugar.
Stir off and on till sugar is melted.
Will serve 8 or 10 people.
—Mrs. H. Thorolfson.

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SUMMER FRUIT CAKE.
1% |b. butter.
cups white sugar.
eggs.
cup milk.
cups flour.
teaspoons baking powder.
14 teaspoon salt.
1 cup cocoanut.
1 Ib. sultanas.
1% |b. citron peel.

Method—Cream butter, add sugar
gradually, then beaten eggs. Sift flour,
baking powder and salt and add altern-
ately with milk. Stir in the fruit and
bake 11%4 hours in moderate oven.

—Mrs. R. J. Miller.

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WHITE FRUIT CAKE.

1 lb. butter.
1 Ib. fruit sugar.
1 Ib. flour or 4 cups.
14 |b. almonds.
14 lb. mixed peel.
1 lb. bleached sultanas.
14, |b. cherries.
1 lemon grated rind and juice.
10 eggs.

Cream butter, add sugar, then eggs,
2 at a time, then add flour, last of all
fruit well floured. Bake in oven 300
F. for 15 minutes; let oven drop to 275
F.; bake 3 hours all together, then
turn stove off and let cake soak in
oven % hour.

—Mrs. S. O. Jonasson.

WHITE FRUIT CAKE.
1 lb. butter.
% lb. almonds blanched and chopped.
% Ib. crystallized pineapple chopped
coarsely.