avoring. Lastly, stir in the
stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Pour the mixture into each one of the
three unbaked crusts, then sprinkle the cup of crumbs thickly over the
tops. Bake in a moderate oven. These are very good, cheap cakes for
breakfast or lunch.

"SOUR CREAM" MOLASSES CAKE

1/2 cup molasses.
1 cup sugar.
1/2 cup thick sour cream.
1/2 cup sour milk.
1/2 cup finely chopped peanuts.
1 egg.
1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in little hot water.
2-3/4 cups flour.
1 cup seeded raisins.

Mix together like ordinary cake. Bake in a fruit cake pan in a slow
oven about forty minutes. This excellent cake requires no shortening,
as cream is used.

ECONOMY CAKE

1 egg.
1 cup sweet milk.
1 cup granulated sugar.
2 cups flour.
1/4 cup butter.
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder.

Cream together sugar and yolk of egg, then beat into this mixture the
butter and add the milk. Then stir the flour, a small quantity at a
time, into the mixture, keeping it smooth and free from lumps. Add the
stiffly beaten white of egg. Use any flavoring or spice preferred.
Bake in a quick oven.

This is not simply a very cheap cake, but a decidedly good one, and
made from inexpensive materials. Follow the recipe exactly or the cake
may be too light and too crumbly if too much baking powder is used, or
heavy if too much butter is used. By varying the flavor and baking in
different forms it is as good as a number of more expensive recipes.
It makes three layers of any kind of layer cake, or bake in Gem pans.

GINGER CAKE

1/2 cup brown sugar.
1 egg.
1/2 cup lard.
2 large cups flour.
1/2 cup New Orleans molasses.
1 tablespoonfnl of ginger.
1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in half cup lukewarm water.

Beat sugar and lard to a cream, then beat in the yolk of egg, molasses
and flour and soda dissolved in water. Lastly, add the stiffly-beaten
white of egg. Bake 45 minutes in hot oven.

A VERY ECONOMICAL GERMAN CLOVE CAKE

Place in a stew-pan the following ingredients:

1 cup brown sugar.
1 cup cold water.
2 cups seeded raisins.
1/3 cup sweet lard, or a mixture of lard and butter.
1/4 grated nutmeg.
2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon.
1/2 teaspoonful ground cloves.
Pinch of salt.

Boil all together three minutes. When cold add I teaspoonful of soda
dissolved in a little hot water. Add about 1-3/4 cups flour sifted
with 1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder. Bake in a loaf in a moderately
hot oven about thirty minutes. This cake is both good an