Spice Cake

One tablespoonful of butter and one cupful of brown sugar creamed together, one egg, one cupful of seedless raisins chopped fine rubbed with one-half cupful of flour, one cupful of sour milk, into which stir one teaspoonful of soda, one cupful of flour, one teaspoonful of cloves and cinnamon, or any spices desired.

Mrs. Will Jacks, Pacific Grove.

Pork Cake

One lb. fat pork chopped fine; pour one-half pt. boiling water on it. Add two cupfuls sugar, one cupful molasses with one teaspoonful soda dissolved in it, one lb..raisins, one-fourth lb. citron, and two ozs. each of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Flour to make proper consistency.

Mrs. W. J. Black.

Marble Cake

White Part

1 1/2 cupfuls of sugar,

1/2 cupful each of butter and sweet milk,

2 1/2 teaspoonfuls of yeast powder,

2 1/2 cupfuls of flour,

Whites of four eggs.

Dark Part

1 cupful of brown sugar, 1/2 cupful each of butter and molasses,. 1/2 cupful of sour milk, 1/2 teaspoonful of soda, 2 1/2 cupfuls of flour, Yolks of four eggs,

1 teaspoonful each of cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoonful of cloves. Bake in slow oven.

Mrs. E. B. Cahoon, Soquel.

Date Cake

1/2 cupful of butter, l 1/2 cupfuls of brown sugar, 1/2 cupful of milk, 2 eggs, 1 3/4cupfuls of Flour,

2 level teaspoonfuls of baking powder 1/2 teaspoonful of cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoonful of nutmeg. 1/3 lb. dates, stoned and cut into pieces. Mix in order given; beat well for five minutes.

Mrs. C. Pioda.

Jam Cake

3/4 cupful of butter, 3 eggs

1 cupful of jam, apricot preferred,

2cupfuls of flour. 1 cupful of sugar,

1 level teaspoonful of soda, 3 tablespoonfuls of sour milk, 1 tablespoonful of cloves and cinnamon, 1/2 grated nutmeg. Bake in layers and spread with boiled frosting.

Mrs. John Clements.

Chocolate Cake

1/2, cupful of chocolate,

1/2 cupful each of milk and butter,

4 eggs,

1 1/2 cupfuls of sugar,

1 3/4 cupfuls of flour,

1 teaspoonful of vanilla,

2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Dissolve chocolate in five tablespoonfuls boiling water. Beat butter to a cream, add sugar gradually, beating all the while; add yolks, beat again, then add melted chocolate and milk, then flour. Give the whole a vigorous beating, stir carefully into the mixture the stiff beaten whites, add vanilla and bake forty-five minutes in moderate oven.

Mrs. L. de V. Bullene.

Angel Cake

II eggs (whites),

1 1/2 cupfuls of granulated sugar,

1 cupful of flour,

1 teaspoonful cream of tartar,

1 teaspoonful extract bitter almond. Sift sugar and flour each four times before measuring; beat whites to stiff froth. Put sugar in sieve and shake a little at a time into eggs, stirring very gently; sift in flour same way; add flavoring. Put in pan without grease or lining; bake in moderate oven forty minutes; keep covered first twenty minutes. When done turn upside down and place on cups so that current of air will pass over and under it.

Mrs. P. Krough.