Cakes 83

Buttermilk Cake—} cup butter, ? cup sugar, 1 cup buttermilk, 1
egg, 2 cups flour sifted, 3 teaspoon Blue Ribbon soda, | teaspoon Blue
Ribbon pastry spice.

Johnny Cake—See recipe for Corn Bread.

Chocolate Marble Cake—1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup sweet
milk, 4 eggs, 2 cups sifted flour, 4 cup cornstarch, 1 teaspoon Blue Ribbon
vanilla, 3 teaspoons Blue Ribbon baking powder. :

After mixing all, take out part of the batter and stir into it 2 squares
melted chocolate; drop this into the greased pans alternately with the other
part.

Spanish Bun—4 eggs (leaving out the whites of 2), 2 cups brown sugar, 1
cup butter, 1 cup milk, 2 teaspoons Blue Ribbon pastry spice, 23 cups
flour, 3 teaspoons Blue Ribbon baking powder, } teaspoon Blue Ribbon
cinnamon.

Cream butter, add sugar, then cream again, add eggs and a little milk,
mix baking powder through flour; mix flour and milk alternately in the
creamed butter, etc., bake in shallow pans. When baked, beat the whites of
the 2 eggs, adding some sugar and 4 teaspoon of Blue Ribbon cinnamon
with which ice the cake, and put in the oven to brown slightly. Serve hot.

Date Cake—# cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs, 2} cups flour,
sifted, 3 teaspoons Blue Ribbon baking powder, } teaspoon salt,
teaspoon Blue Ribbon vanilla, 1 heaping cup of finely chopped dates, 3
cup chopped walnuts. Stir dates and nuts in the last thing. 7

Apple Sauce Cake (Eggless)—1} cups unsweetened apple sauce, 4
cup shortening, 1 cup brown sugar, | cup raisins, 3 teaspoon each of Blue
Ribbon cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, } teaspoon salt, 2 cups flour, 4
teaspoon Blue Ribbon soda, 1} teaspoons Blue Ribbon baking powder.

If apple sauce is sweetened, decrease sugar.

Boiled Cake (Eggless)——I cup brown sugar, } cup shortening, 1 cup
cold water, } teaspoon salt, 4 teaspoon each Blue Ribbon nutmeg, cin-
namon, mace, | cup raisins. Boil these ingredients 3 minutes and cool.
Add 2 cups flour, } teaspoon Blue Ribbon baking powder, and 1 tea-
spoon Blue Ribbon soda.

Pound Cake—1 pound butter (2 cups), 1 pound sugar (2 cups), 1
pound flour (4 cups), 8 eggs, 1 tablespoon Blue Ribbon lemon juice.

Cream butter, add sugar gradually, then Se of eggs beaten until
ee Fold in egg whites beaten stiff and dry. Bake 1 hour in
a slow oven.

Honey Cake—+} cup shortening, 4 cup sugar, 4 cup honey, } cup sour
_ milk, 1 egg, 134 cups flour, } teaspoon Blue Ribbon soda, 2 teaspoons Blue
_ Ribbon baking powder, } teaspoon each Blue Ribbon cinnamon and
nutmeg, { teaspoon salt. ; |