1 cupful each of butter, raisins and

sweet milk,

2cupfuls of sugar,

4cupfuls of flour, 4 eggs,

1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder, Flavoring to taste, omitting the raisins.

Mrs. S. W. Conklin.,

Loaf Chocolate Cake

3eggs,

l 1/2 cupfuls of sugar,

l/2 cupful of butter,

1/2 cupful sweet milk,

1 3/4 cupfuls of flour,

2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder.

Dissolve ten tablespoonfuls grated chocolate in a little of the measured milk, add vanilla to flavor. Put three tablespoonfuls sugar and two of milk from the cup of milk) on the stove to boil. Add the hot milk and sugar to chocolate, stirring hard to make smooth, and add to batter last thing.

Icing: Dissolve in one-half cupful boiling-water three-fourths cupful grated chocolate, add one and one-half cupfuls sugar and boil; just before done add butter size of walnut. Cook until it shapes in water, then stir until it thickens.

Mrs. J. R. Mason,

New Whatcom, Wash.