d economical,
as no butter, eggs or milk are used in its composition. The recipe for
making this excellent, cheap cake was bought by Aunt Sarah at a "Cake
and Pie" sale. She was given permission to pass it on.

ICING.

1 small cup pulverized sugar.
2 tablespoonfuls of cocoa.

Mix smooth with a very little boiling water. Spread over cake.

CAKE ICING FOR VARIOUS CAKES

Cook together 2 cups of granulated sugar, 1-1/4 cups of water a little
less than 12 minutes. Just before it reaches the soft ball stage, beat
in quickly 25 marshmallows; when dissolved and a thick, creamy mass,
spread between layers and on top of cake.

This is a delicious creamy icing when made according to directions. If
sugar and water be cooked one minute too long, the icing becomes
sugary instead of creamy. One-half the above quantity will ice the top
of a cake nicely.

MARY'S RECIPE FOR "HOT MILK" SPONGE CAKE

For this cake was used:

2 cups granulated sugar.
4 eggs.
2-1/8 cups flour.
1-1/2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
1 cup boiling hot milk.

Separate the eggs, place yolks in a bowl, add the sugar and beat until
creamy.

Add the stiffly beaten whites of eggs alternately with the sifted
flour and baking powder; lastly add the cup of boiling hot milk;
should the milk not be rich, add one teaspoon of butter to the hot
milk. The cake batter should be thin as griddle cake batter, pour into
a tube pan and place at once in a _very moderate_ oven; in about 15
minutes increase the heat and in about 25 minutes more the cake, risen
to the top of pan, should have commenced to brown on top.

Bake from 15 to 20 minutes more in a moderately hot oven with steady
heat; when baked the top of the cake should be a light fawn color and
texture of cake light and fine grained.

Mary was told by her Aunt that any sponge cake was improved by the
addition of a teaspoon of butter, causing the sponge cake to resemble
pound cake in texture.

CHEAP "MOLASSES GINGER BREAD"

1 cup New Orleans molasses.
1 cup sugar.
1/2 cup shortening (lard and butter mixed).
1 cup hot water.
1 large teaspoonful soda dissolved in the one cup of hot water.
1 teaspoonful of ginger.
1/2 teaspoonful of cinnamon.
1 quart of flour.

Stir sugar and shortening together. Add molasses, beat all thoroughly,
then add hot water and flour. Stir hard. Bake in two layer pans in
quick oven about 30 minutes. Use cake while fresh.

AUNT SARAH'S EXTRA FINE LARGE SPONGE CAKE