1 cup flour.

1 cup walnuts (cut fine). 1 tsp. vanilla.

Pinch salt.

Method.—Take hot water, add soda and pour over dates cut fine, let cool. Cream butter and sugar, add_ well beaten eggs, flour, walnuts cut fine and vanilla. Bake 35 minutes, in med- ium oven (this makes thin batter).

Icing—

144 cups icing sugar. 3%, cups butter, flavor with vanilla. Mrs. Helga Johnson.

CHERRY CAKE.

1% |b. butter.

% |b. castor sugar.

6 eggs.

% |b. flour.

6 oz. citron peel.

6 oz. cherries.

6 oz. bleached sultana raisins. 1 tsp. vanilla.

1 tsp. baking powder.

Pinch of salt.

Method.—Cream, butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time, flour, baking powder, fruit and vanilla, salt. Bake 1% hours in loaf tin.

—Mrs. T. Scambler.

DREAM CAKE

2 cups flour. 1% cup butter. 1% tspn. salt.

Mix as for pastry and press into a deep pan. Bake to light brown. While this is baking cream well 1 cup brown sugar and % cup butter, add 3 egg yolks, sift 142 cups flour with 3 tspns. baking powder, add this alternately with % cup sweet milk, add 1 cup raisins, 1 tspn. vanilla. Spread this over first mixture, bake 25 minutes in moderate oven. Over this put 1 cup cocoanut, 3 egg whites beaten stiff to which has been added 1 cup sugar and 1 tspn. vanilla, put in oven and brown.

—Mrs. W. S. Jonasson.

MERINGUE CAKE. 6 egg whites. % tspn. cream of tartar. 2 cups granulated sugar. 34 tspn. vanilla.

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Filling— l% |b. marshmallows. 4 pint whipped cream. Topping with strawberries or diced pineapple.

Method.—Beat whites of 6 eggs five minutes, add 1% tspn. cream of tartar and continue beating until stiff and dry. Add 1 cup fine granulated sugar and beat until mixture holds its shape. Remove’ beater’ and add gradually another cup _ of granulated sugar, beating lightly this time. Add % tspn. vanilla, beat about 30 minutes in all. Spread in two layer cake pans lined with buttered paper. Bake in a very slow oven 40- 45 minutes. Remove from pans care- fully and let cool. Cut % lb. marsh- mallows in small pieces and soak in 1% pint whipped cream 2 to 4 hours. When ready to serve spread half of this (whipped cream and marshmal- lows) on bottom layer cover with strawberries, fresh raspberries’ or diced pineapple, put the other layer on top, spread on remaining half of mixture, cover with the fruit used and top with dots of whipped cream.

—Mrs. B.C. Juby.

EVERYBODY’S DELIGHT CAKE. 1% cups flour.

2 tbspns. brown sugar. 1% cup butter.

Mix as for pastry, pat into 9 inch tin, bake about ten minutes.

Top—-

2 eggs.

1% cups brown sugar.

% cup walnuts or pecans chopped. 1 cup cocoanut.

14 cup glaced cherries.

1% cup fruit juice.

2 tspns. baking powder.

2 tablespoons flour.

Mix above ingredients well together, pour over pastry in pan. Bake in mod- erate oven for about 20 minutes.

—Mrs. G. F. Jonasson.

BOILED SPONGE CAKE. eggs. tspn. vanilla. cup sugar, cup flour. | tspn. baking powder.

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