teaspoon baking powder, two scant cups of
flour.--Mrs. Creaser.

DEVIL'S FOOD CAKE.--One egg, one cup sugar, half cup sour milk, one
tablespoon butter, one fourth cup boiling water, 1 teaspoon soda, one
and one half squares chocolate and one cup flour. (Can use sour cream
instead of milk and butter.) Cream eggs and sugar. Melt chocolate over
hot water and add butter to melt it, then add eggs and sugar. Dissolve
soda in water.--Mrs. G. A. McIntosh.

BOISE BROWN CAKE.--One and one half cups sugar, three fourths cup
butter, four eggs, three fourths cup grated chocolate, one cup milk,
one cup chopped nuts, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one
teaspoon vanilla, one teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon cinnamon, one
teaspoon allspice, one half teaspoon salt.--Mrs. D. E. Plier.

MASHED POTATO CAKE.--Two cups sugar, three quarters cup butter, one cup
mashed potatoes, four eggs, one cup chocolate, one half cup sweet milk,
one teaspoonful cloves, one teaspoonful vanilla, one cup chopped
walnut, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder.--Mrs. F.
Kleinsorge.

CHOCOLATE LOAF CAKE.--One half cake of chocolate shaved in a bowl or
three fourths cup of cocoa. Pour one cup of boiling water on this
mixture and let it stand while you are mixing the cake. Cream three
fourths cup of butter with two cups of sugar until light. It is best to
cream the butter first and add sugar gradually especially if the butter
is hard and cold. Beat in yolks of two eggs, one half cup of sour milk
or butter milk, one teaspoon of soda dissolved in a little water,
(about two tablespoonfuls,) two cups of flour sifted, and beaten whites
of two eggs. Beat well, then add the chocolate. Bake in one sheet in a
dripping pan lined with greased paper. Let the cake stand in the pan.
Ice with boiled frosting and when firm and cold, cover with one square
of chocolate that has been melted in one teaspoon of butter in a cup
placed in a pan of hot water for five minutes. Pour the chocolate over
the white frosting and spread evenly with a silver knife. Cut the cake
diagonally across the pan into two inch diamond shaped pieces. A cupful
of floured chopped nuts may be added to the cake batter before baking,
if nut loaf is liked, and sometimes I place a half English walnut in
the center of the frosting on each diamond. This chocolate and white
frosting is also nice with white layer cake and chopped nuts make it
extra nice for a thick filling to a square two layer cake,