Three cupfuls of light brown sugar, 1/2 cup of sweet lard and yolk of one egg creamed together until light.  Then add 1-1/2 cups sour milk alternately with 4 cups of flour and 1-1/2 teaspoonfuls of cinnamon; 1-1/2 teaspoonfuls of ginger, 1/2 teaspoonful of cloves and half of a grated nutmeg, 1 tablespoonful of thinly shaved or grated citron is an improvement to cake, but may be omitted.  Beat all together, then add 1 teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a small quantity of the sour milk.  Lastly, add the stiffly beaten white of one egg and one cup seeded raisins dredged with a little flour.  Put the cake batter in a large, well-greased fruit cake pan, lined with paper which had been greased and a trifle of flour sifted over, and bake in an oven with a steady heat about one hour and fifteen minutes.  This is a very good, inexpensive cake and will keep moist some time if kept in a tin cake box.  The fruit might be omitted, but it improves the cake.

“ANGEL FOOD” LAYER CAKE

1 cup and 2 tablespoonfuls granulated sugar. 1-1\2 cups flour. 1 cup and 2 tablespoonfuls scalded milk. 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder.  Pinch of salt.  Whites of 2 eggs.

Place milk in top part of double boiler and heat to boiling point.  Sift dry ingredients together four times and then pour in the hot milk and stir well together.  Lastly, add the stiffly beaten whites of eggs.  Fold them in lightly, but do not beat.  The batter will be quite thin.  Do not grease the tins.  No flavoring is used.  Bake in two square layer tins, put together with any icing preferred.  Bake in a moderate oven.  This is a good, economical cake to bake when yolks of eggs have been used for other purposes.

MARY’S CHOCOLATE CAKE

One-half cup of brown sugar, 1/2 cup of sweet milk and 1/2 cup of grated, unsweetened chocolate.  Boil all together until thick as cream; allow it to cool.

Mix 1/2 cup of butter with 1/2 cup of brown sugar.  Add two beaten eggs, 2/3 of a cup of sweet milk and vanilla flavoring to taste.  Beat this into the boiled mixture and add 2 cups of flour sifted with 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder.  Bake in three layers and put together with chocolate icing, or cocoa filling.

COCOA FILLING.

1-1/2 cups pulverized sugar. 1 tablespoonful butter, melted. 2-1/2 tablespoonfuls cocoa.

Place all the ingredients in a bowl and mix to a smooth paste with cold coffee.  Flavor with vanilla and spread on cake.  Tins cocoa filling should not be boiled.

A CHEAP ORANGE CAKE

2 eggs. 1-1/2 cupfuls sugar. 1 large tablespoonful butter. 1 cup milk. 2 cups flour sifted with 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder.  Juice and grated yellow rind of half an orange.

Bake in moderate oven in loaf or layers.  If a loaf cake, ice top and sides with the following icing: