tter and two cups of sugar together until light, then
add a half cup of milk, four eggs beaten separately, the yolks to a
cream and the whites to a stiff froth, one teaspoonful of grated
nutmeg, the same of cinnamon and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
The baking powder to be rubbed into the flour. Bub one quart of
huckleberries well with some flour and add them last, but do not mash
them. Pour into buttered pans, about an inch thick; dust the tops with
sugar and bake. It is better the day after baking.

SWEET STRAWBERRY CAKE.

Three eggs, one cupful of sugar, two of flour, one tablespoonful of
butter, a teaspoonful, heaped, of baking powder. Beat the butter and
sugar together and add the eggs well beaten. Stir in the flour and
baking powder well sifted together. Bake in deep tin plate. This
quantity will fill four plates. With three pints of strawberries mix a
cupful of sugar and mash them a little. Spread the fruit between the
layers of cake. The top layer of strawberries may be covered with a
meringue made with the white of an egg and a tablespoonful of powdered
sugar.

Save out the largest berries and arrange them around in circles on the
top in the white frosting. Makes a very fancy dish, as well as a most
delicious cake.

MOLASSES CUP CAKES.

One cup of butter, one of sugar, six eggs, five cupfuls of sifted
flour, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, two tablespoonfuls of ginger,
three teacupfuls of cooking molasses and one heaping teaspoonful of
soda. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream; beat the eggs very light,
the yolks and whites separately, and add to it; after which put in the
spices; then the molasses and flour in rotation, stirring the mixture
all the time; beat the whole _well_ before adding the soda and but
little afterwards. Put into well-buttered patty-pan tins and bake in a
_very moderate_ oven. A baker's recipe.

BAKERS' GINGER SNAPS.

Boil all together the following ingredients: Two cups of brown sugar,
two cups of cooking molasses, one cup of shortening, which should be
part butter, one _large_ tablespoonful of ginger, one tablespoonful of
ground cinnamon, one teaspoonful of cloves; remove from the fire and
let it cool. In the meantime, sift four cups of flour and stir part of
it into the above mixture. Now dissolve a teaspoonful of soda in a
tablespoonful of warm water and beat into this mixture, stir in the
remainder of the flour and make stiff enough to roll into long rolls
about a