“SOUR CREAM” MOLASSES CAKE

1/2 cup molasses. 1 cup sugar. 1/2 cup thick sour cream. 1/2 cup sour milk. 1/2 cup finely chopped peanuts. 1 egg. 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in little hot water. 2-3/4 cups flour. 1 cup seeded raisins.

Mix together like ordinary cake.  Bake in a fruit cake pan in a slow oven about forty minutes.  This excellent cake requires no shortening, as cream is used.

ECONOMY CAKE

1 egg. 1 cup sweet milk. 1 cup granulated sugar. 2 cups flour. 1/4 cup butter. 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder.

Cream together sugar and yolk of egg, then beat into this mixture the butter and add the milk.  Then stir the flour, a small quantity at a time, into the mixture, keeping it smooth and free from lumps.  Add the stiffly beaten white of egg.  Use any flavoring or spice preferred.  Bake in a quick oven.

This is not simply a very cheap cake, but a decidedly good one, and made from inexpensive materials.  Follow the recipe exactly or the cake may be too light and too crumbly if too much baking powder is used, or heavy if too much butter is used.  By varying the flavor and baking in different forms it is as good as a number of more expensive recipes.  It makes three layers of any kind of layer cake, or bake in Gem pans.

GINGER CAKE

1/2 cup brown sugar. 1 egg. 1/2 cup lard. 2 large cups flour. 1/2 cup New Orleans molasses. 1 tablespoonfnl of ginger. 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in half cup lukewarm water.

Beat sugar and lard to a cream, then beat in the yolk of egg, molasses and flour and soda dissolved in water.  Lastly, add the stiffly-beaten white of egg.  Bake 45 minutes in hot oven.

A VERY ECONOMICAL GERMAN CLOVE CAKE

Place in a stew-pan the following ingredients: 

1 cup brown sugar. 1 cup cold water. 2 cups seeded raisins. 1/3 cup sweet lard, or a mixture of lard and butter. 1/4 grated nutmeg. 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon. 1/2 teaspoonful ground cloves.  Pinch of salt.

Boil all together three minutes.  When cold add I teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little hot water.  Add about 1-3/4 cups flour sifted with 1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder.  Bake in a loaf in a moderately hot oven about thirty minutes.  This cake is both good and economical, as no butter, eggs or milk are used in its composition.  The recipe for making this excellent, cheap cake was bought by Aunt Sarah at a “Cake and Pie” sale.  She was given permission to pass it on.

ICING.

1 small cup pulverized sugar. 2 tablespoonfuls of cocoa.

Mix smooth with a very little boiling water.  Spread over cake.

CAKE ICING FOR VARIOUS CAKES

Cook together 2 cups of granulated sugar, 1-1/4 cups of water a little less than 12 minutes.  Just before it reaches the soft ball stage, beat in quickly 25 marshmallows; when dissolved and a thick, creamy mass, spread between layers and on top of cake.