recipes

Rachel Cal{e
Two cupfuls brown sugar, 2 eggs, 1/2 cupful butter,
small, 1 cupful sour milk, 1 teaspoonful soda,
1 teaspoonful cinnamon, ]/2 teaspoonful each of nutmeg
and cloves, 1 teaspoonful soda, 2 cupfuls of
yflour, pinch of baking powder.
Mrs. J. Vande Berg.
Spice Cake
One and a half cupfuls brown sugar, 1/2 cupful
butter, 1Y2 cupfuls flour, 3,4, cupful sour cream, 1/2
cupful nuts, ]/2 cupful raisins, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful
cinnamon, 1;2 teaspoonful allspice, 1,4, teaspoonful
ginger, 1/ 2 teaspoonful soda.
lVIrs. Bert Cooper.
Eggless Molasses Cookies
One cupful sugar, 1 cupful molasses, 1 cupful
lard, ];2 cupful hot water, 2 teaspoonfuls soda, 2 teaspoonfuls
cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful ginger, 1 teaspoonful
salt. Flour to roll.
Mrs. Bert Cooper.
Spice Layer Cake
Two cupfuls brown sugar, lf2 cupful fats or butter,
lf2 cupful sour milk, 21/ 2 cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful
each of soda, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, ,1
eggs added last. Whites of two left out for icing,
chopped raisins or figs makes nice filling for this
cake.
Mrs. C. C. Kline.
Boiled Spice Cake
Two cupfuls of sugar (white), 2 cupfuls of water,
2 cupfuls of raisins, 1 cupful of lard or butter, 2 teaspoonfuls
cloves (if desired), 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon,
1 teaspoonful salt. Put in pan and boil, cool
and add 2 teaspoonfuls of soda, 3 cupfuls of flour.
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