1 lb. each of flour and sugar, 3/4 lb. of butter, 12 eggs,

2heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder, 2 teaspoonfuls of extract.

Cream butter and add flour; beat yolks and add sugar; beat whites of eggs to stiff froth and add alternately with yolks and su-gar to the butter and flour. When all is thoroughly mixed add baking powder and extract. Bake in two pans in moderate oven from forty-five minutes to an hour, and frost with the following icing:

Boiled Icing:

1 lb. of powdered sugar,

3/4 cupful of hot water,

Whites of three eggs,

Tea spoonful extract. Put sugar and hot water in granite pan and boil until syrup will drop hard in cold water. Have whites of eggs beaten stiff and pour syrup very slowly (while boiling hot) into the eggs, stirring all very fast. When syrup is all in, beat well and add extract. The more the icing is beaten the more gloss it will have.

Mrs. V. D. Black.

Mock Pound Cake

1 1/2 cupfuls of sugar,

1 cupful of eggs (5 or 6), 3 cupfuls of flour,

1 1/2 cupfuls of butter. Cream butter and flour; beat the egg's well, add the sugar and beat well together; then add all and beat again. Flavor with a little brandy, lemon and nutmeg. Bake in moderately hot oven as for cup cake or any light cake.

Miss A. Campbell, San Francisco.

Devil's Food Cake

Part I

1 cupful of brown sugar, 1/2 cupful of butter, 1 cupful of sweet milk, 3 eggs (yolks),

1 teaspoonful of soda,

2cupfuls of flour.

Part II

1 cupful of brown sugar, 1 cupful of grated chocolate, 1/2 cupful of sweet milk, Flavor with vanilla. Put part II on the stove, using a double boiler, and let it come to a boil, then cool and mix with part I. Bake in layers and put the allowing chocolate icing between:

Icing: 6 rounded tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, 1 1/2 cupfuls of powdered sugar,

3eggs (whites).

Beat the whites but very little, stir in the chocolate, then pour in the sugar gradually, beating well; set on the stove and let it boil a little.

Mrs. J. J. Kelly.

Devil's Food Cake

1/2 cupful of butter, 2 cupfuls of brown sugar, 2 eggs, pinch of salt, 1/2 cupful of sour milk, 1/3 cake of chocolate, 1/2 cupful of hot water,

1teaspoonful of soda sifted with three cupfuls of flour. Bake in layers and spread between following

Filling

2 cupfuls of brown sugar, 1/2 cupful each of cream and butter,

2tablespoonfuls of chocolate, Cook until thick.

Mrs. F. N. Noble, Pacific Grove.