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Two cups flour, % cup sugar, 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1% teaspoon salt, few grains nutmeg, I egg, 1/, cup butter, 1% tablespoonfuls lard. 1/, cup milk. Mix dry ingredients and sift twice, work in shortening with tips of fingers, add egg well beaten, and milk; bake. Split cake and spread under layer with cream sauce. Cover with strawberries that have been sprinkled with powdered sugar. JAPANESE FRUIT CAKE Six eggs, I lb. sugar, 1 lb. flour, % lb. butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, I teaspoonful lemon, I cup seeded raisins, I teaspoonful ground spice, I teaspoonful cloves, I teaspoonful cinnamon. Put this in half of the batter; make a 5-layer cake. FILLING: 1 cocoanut, juice of 2 lemons, 2 cups sugar, I cup boiling water, thicken with a little cornstarch. Beat until cold, put between layers; plain white icing on outside. MRS. CAM EASTON. MOLASSES CAKE Cream 2 tablespoonfuls of butter, 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar; add 1 egg and beat well; then 1 cup of molasses, ¥% cup of warm water in which 1 teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved, and % teaspoonful of cinnamon, 2 cups of flour. Beat well and bake in layers with any filling desired. MRS. OSCAR BREEDLOVE. Ask your grocer for KNOX GELATINE—take no other. WHITE LOAF CAKE Whites of 1 doz. eggs beaten well, 34 lb. of good country butter, 2% cups of white sugar, 5 cups of flour, 1 good teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla, I teaspoonful of lemon, I cup of sweet milk. To mix: Cream butter well, add sugar, cream again, then add to butter and sugar I god cup sweet milk, cream milk well into the sugar and butter, then add half flour well sifted, mix, then add half of whites of eggs, mix well, then add rest of flour, mix again well, then add all whites of eggs, flavoring, and bake at once in slow oven, keeping heat about same, for an hour *andwaenalt,. MRS. WILLIAM RANE. SOFT GINGERBREAD One cup sugar, 1 cup New Orleans molasses, %4 cup butter, 4% cup lard, 3 eggs, 3 cups sifted flour, 1 cup boiling water in which 2 level teaspoons soda have been dissolved, I teaspoon ginger, I teaspoon cinnamon, I cup raisins, floured and added at the last. This mixture is very thin. MRS. KATE SATE. HOT WATER GINGERBREAD One cup molasses, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 tablespoonful ginger, I tablespoonful melted butter, % teaspoonful salt, 4% cup boiling water, 2 cups flour. MISS KATE DE LA CROIX. KNOX GELATINE improves soups and gravies. SPONGE DROPS Beat 3 eggs lightly, add 34 of a cup of granulated sugar, I heaping cup of flour sifted with 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and % teaspoonful of soda (or 1 heaping teaspoonful baking powder). Flavor with I teaspoonful lemon extract; drop with teaspoon three inches apart on buttered tins. MISS ARTIE DE LA CROIX. COCOA DOUGHNUTS One egg, % cup sugar, % cup milk, %4 cup cocoa, 134 cups flour, 4 teaspoonful salt, % teaspoonful cinnamon, 2 heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder. Mix and sift dry ingredients. Beat egg; add sugar, then milk and dry ingredients alternately. Roll, cut, and fry in deep fat. About % cup of flour worked in to knead. MRS. S. E. SAILS. OATMEAL COOKIES Two cups flour, 2 cups oatmeal, I cup sugar, I cup Crisco, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, 1 teaspoonful of cinnamon, % teaspoonful of soda, % teaspoonful of baking powder, I cup nuts, I cup raisins. Mix Crisco and sugar, add beaten eggs, and milk, then flour, nuts, raisins, oatmeal, cinnamon, baking powder and soda and a pinch of salt; drop with teaspoon. Batter is very stiff. MRS. W. I. HOWELL. Send for free sample of KNOX GELATINE. COOKIES One-half cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon milk, 2 eggs, I heaping teaspoonful baking powder. Flour to make dough to roll out. MISS KATE de la CROIX. GINGER COOKIES