and one-half cups
buttermilk; cottage cheese; one cup flour; one tablespoonful sugar; one
teaspoonful soda; green pepper. Sift together cornmeal, flour, salt and
sugar into a bowl. Pour three cups buttermilk (or sour milk) over the
sifted ingredients, and beat well. Dissolve one teaspoonful soda in one
cup of sour milk and beat thoroughly into the butter. Spread on well
greased hot griddle and fry until little bubbles cover the surface. Turn
quickly. Have ready some cottage cheese seasoned with salt and pepper in
which has been mixed chopped green pepper or pimento. Spread one-half
inch thick on top of hoe cake. Cut cake into quarters and serve on hot
plate. This recipe makes four griddle size cakes.

AMBER SYRUP

Mrs. Harry M. Boon

One cup brown sugar; two cups granulated sugar; two cups boiling water.
Boil five minutes and when cool add ten drops vanilla. It is hard to
distinguish this from maple syrup.

CAKES

"_Now, now the mirth comes
With the cake full of plums._"
--HERRICK.

MARSHMALLOW CAKE

Mrs. J. H. Shanley

One-half cup butter; one and one-half cups sugar; two and one-half cups
flour; one-half cup milk; two level teaspoonfuls baking powder; five
eggs; one teaspoonful vanilla. Bake in layers and spread with the
marshmallow paste between layers and on top; also marshmallows cut in
half.

Marshmallow Paste: Three-fourths cup sugar; one-fourth cup milk, boiled
together six minutes. Melt one-fourth pound marshmallows, add two
tablespoonfuls water; combine with the boiled sugar and milk, add
vanilla and beat until stiff enough to spread.

GOLD CAKE

Mrs. Charles S. Daily

One and one-half cups sugar; three-fourths cup butter; four yolks of
eggs; three whites of eggs; three-fourths cup milk; two cups flour; two
teaspoonfuls baking powder; one teaspoonful flavoring. Cream butter and
sugar, then add the beaten yolks of eggs, add flavoring to this, then
add milk and flour alternately, first sifting flour and baking powder
together. Beat the whites of eggs to a stiff froth and add last, folding
them in gently. Bake in a loaf cake pan forty minutes in a modern oven.

COCOANUT CREAM CAKE

Mrs. H. S. Mount

One-half cup butter; one and one-half cup sugar; one cup cold water;
three cups sifted flour (sifted three times); two heaping teaspoonfuls
baking powder; whites four eggs beaten stiff; flavor with vanilla. Cream
butter and