Prune Cake

One cup sugar, half cup butter; cream butter and sugar, add three eggs beaten, use white of one for icing. Then add cup of milk, one and one-half cups of Albers flour with two teaspoonful baking-powder and a good pinch of salt sifted three times. Add above alternately. Stone a good-sized cup of stewed prunes and add half a cup of seeded raisins, one-fourth teaspoonful each of cloves and allspices, also half a teaspoonful of cinnamon and nutmeg. Bake in layers and use white icing. This has been tried and proved to be an excellent dark cake.

Danish Apple Cake

Take twelve large, juicy apples, pare and core as for pie. Mix three cups fine bread crumbs, a little sugar and cinnamon. Grease a deep cake mold, sprinkle with crumbs a little thicker at the bottom, then a layer of crumbs, put a little bit of butter over crumbs, then apples, and so forth until all is used. Bake in a moderate oven two hours. When cold serve with whipped cream.

Devil Cake

For The Custard Part

One cup of grated chocolate, one cup of brown sugar, a half cup of sweet milk, yolk of one egg and a teaspoonful of vanilla. Stir all together in a granite saucepan; cook slowly and set away to cool.

For The Cake Part

One cup brown sugar, two cups Albers flour, a half cup of butter, half cup of sweet milk and two eggs. Cream the butter, sugar and yolks of eggs, add milk, sifted flour and whites of eggs, beaten stiff; beat all together, then stir in the custard, lastly adding one teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a very little warm water. Bake in jelly tins.

The Filling

Two cups of sugar, ten tablespoonfuls of hot water, one-half teaspoonful of cream tartar; boil until thick. Put in thirty-two marshmallows; boil up again, then stir in the beaten whites of three eggs; when almost cool stir in one cupful of chopped walnuts, beat until cold, then spread between layers an inch deep. This is delicious and will keep indefinitely.

Cocoanut Sponge Cake

Ingredients

One teacupful of granulated sugar, two teacupfuls of Albers flour, a tiny pinch of salt. two ounces of butter, three eggs, a large teaspoonful of baking powder, a little dessicated cocoanut and jam.

Method

Whisk the eggs to a cream in a large basin. Cream the butter and add it to the eggs, also the sugar and salt and whisk for five minutes; then gradually stir in the flour and lastly the baking powder.

Grease two cake tins, put in each a thin layer of the mixture and bake for fifteen minutes in a moderate oven. When the cakes are nicely set remove from the oven and take out of tins and place on a sieve to cool.

Spread with jam and press together and scatter cocoanut over the top; then cut up into fingers, diamond shapes, etc.

Pound Cake

Take one pound and fourteen ounces of powdered sugar, one pound and two ounces of butter, twelve eggs and 1l/2 pints milk, three-quarters ounce of baking powder, three and one-half pounds of Albers flour (sifted); beat the eggs to a froth, rub sugar, butter and eggs together; then let stand till stiff and beat in milk, and, last of all, the flour.

Lady Fingers

Two eggs, one cup sugar, one-half cup butter beaten to a cream, four tablespoons baking powder; enough Albers flour to stir with a spoon; lemon to flavor. For your molding board take a little piece of dough, roll with your hands as large as your finger, cut off in four-inch lengths and put closely on buttered tins. Quick oven.

Burnt Sugar Cake

Take one cup of granulated sugar, place in a skillet and let it melt. Then pour in boiling water and stir until it is a thick syrup. Now 1 cup sugar, 1 of good rich milk, lump butter, size of an egg, 3 tea-spoonfuls of baking powder, 2 tablespoonfuls burnt sugar, 2 eggs beaten well, Albers Hour enough to make stiff as a common cake. Sift the baking powder into the flour. Flavor with vanilla extract. To white icing add 2 spoons of burnt sugar and put between and on top of layers. This is a four-layer cake.

Soft Gingerbread

One cup molasses, one-half cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup milk, two eggs, one tablespoon ginger, one teaspoonful allspice, two cups Albers flour, one and one-half teaspoons baking powder. Make in shallow pans or gem pans in moderate oven.

Ye Ancient Gingerbread

One pint of sorghum molasses, one cup (genuine) sour buttermilk, one cup home-made leaf lard, one level tablespoon soda, three-quarters tablespoon ginger, one teaspoon each allspice, cinnamon, one-quarter teaspoon salt, two eggs and Albers flour to make a soft dough.

Mix lard and molasses, add beaten eggs, then add spice, salt and soda sifted with about one cup Albers flour and alternate with the milk, beating all well together. Finally add flour enough to make a soft dough. Roll rather thick, cut in fantastic shapes, "little gingerbread men," if to please the little folks, or any desired shape. Have a moderate heat only, as bread should not be baked too quickly.