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% cup sugar % cup molasses 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon ginger 1½ cups flour Melt the butter with the hot coffee. Beat the eggs and stir in the sugar and molasses. Combine this with the warm mixture. Sift in flour and ginger to make a soft drop batter. Stir in the baking powder, and spread the batter % inch thick on a greased and floured dripping pan. Bake 25 minutes in a moderate (350° F.) oven. While hot frost this with one cupful of confectioner's sugar, stirred with four tablespoons of cream. Flavor with vanilla. Raw Apple Float 3 apples 4 tablespoons sugar 5 egg whites nutmeg Peel and grate the apples and then drain off liquid. Beat the whites of eggs stiff and gradually add the sugar. Fold in the grated apple slowly, beating all the time. Pour into a serving bowl and sprinkle top with nutmeg. Place in ice box until very cold and serve. Ah love me a frinless woman, An her name is Julie Anne. She treats me like a dirty dog, But ah do's de best ah can. Bride's Angel Food Cake whites of 18 eggs 1 pound sugar 1 pound sifted flour % pound butter 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 teaspoons cream of tartar 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour three times, and add soda and cream of tartar, then cream butter and sugar until very light and add to the stiffly-beaten whites of eggs gradually. Add the flour beating it lightly, flavor with teaspoon of vanilla. Place in angel food pan and bake in a slow oven (250° F.). Fruit Cake 2 cups blanched almonds 3 cups seeded raisins 2 cups currants 2 cups crystallized cherries 2 cups chopped dried figs 2 cups chopped dates 1 cup chopped citron 2 cups crystallized pineapple 1 cup chopped lemon peel 1 cup chopped orange peel 3 cups light brown sugar 3 cups butter 3 cups flour 12 eggs, separated 1 wineglass brandy 2 tablespoons cinnamon 2 tablespoons mace 2 tablespoons cloves 2 tablespoons allspice 2 tablespoons nutmeg 1 tablespoon soda in a little water Cream sugar and butter, add the well-beaten egg yolks. Then gradually add a little of each fruit which has been well dredged in some of the flour. Put in the spices, brandy and the remaining flour. Beat the egg whites to a stiff froth and add. Dissolve the baking soda in a little warm water and add last. Bake in a deep pan, in a slow oven 2l/2 to 3 hours, or until done when tried with a toothpick. Lady Baltimore Cake 2 cups confectioner's sugar 1 cup butter 3 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder y<i teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 6 egg whites Cream the butter and sugar together. Sift the baking powder and flour together twice, add the salt and mix with the butter and sugar and the milk. Beat thoroughly. Beat the whites of eggs until stiff and add. Stir well and bake in buttered layer-cake pans for twenty minutes in a moderate (375° F.) oven. Spread the layers with a favorite icing. Plantation Marble Cake 2 cups sifted cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ^4 teaspoon salt % cup butter or other shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs, well beaten % cup milk 1 teaspoon cinnamon V'2 teaspoon cloves % teaspoon nutmeg 2 tablespoons molasses