Chocolate Sauce

One Egg; 1 cupful Milk; 1 teaspoonful Cornstarch; 1/2 cupful Sugar; 2 teaspoonfuls Ghirardelli's Ground Chocolate; 1 teaspoonful Vanilla. Scald milk and add the Cornstarch, which has been dissolved in a little of the cold milk; beat egg and add to the mixture with the sugar, chocolate and vanilla.

Chocolate Icing

Place 2 ounces of Ghirardelli 's Ground Chocolate in an enameled saucepan with a quarter pint of boiling water; set on the stove for a few minutes, stirring constantly. Then remove, add 12 pound of pulverized Sugar and stir again until perfectly smooth.

Exposition Cake

One cupful of sugar, one-half of butter, one-half of milk, one and one-half cupfuls Albers Hour. 3 eggs well beaten, 1 teaspoonful Baking Powder. Bring to a boil; six large tablespoonfuls of chocolate, three level teaspoonful of white sugar, two level teaspoonful of milk. Let cool and add to cake part. Bake in two layers; put together with marsh-mallow icing, to which has been added chopped walnuts.

Sponge Cake

One pound sugar, one Albers flour, ten eggs. Stir yolks of eggs and sugar till perfectly light; beat whites of eggs and add them with the flour after beating together lightly; flavor with lemon extract. Three teaspoons baking powder in the flour will add to its lightness, but it never fails without. Bake in a moderate oven.

Lemon Cake

Two scant cupfuls of sugar, one-half of a cupful of butter, three eggs, two and one-half cups of Albers flour, one cup of milk, two rounding teaspoonfuls of baking powder, grated rind of lemon and one-half teaspoonful of salt. Beat the butter with half the sugar, then add gradually the remainder of sugar, with the well-beaten eggs; put in the grated lemon rind, being careful not to use any of the white pith. Lastly stir in the flour with which the baking powder and salt have been sifted, alternately with the milk. Bake about forty minutes in a moderate oven and cover with lemon frosting.

Coffee Cake

Two cups brown sugar, one of butter, one of molasses, one of strong coffee as prepared for the table, four eggs, one teaspoon saleratus, two of cinnamon, two of cloves, one of grated nutmeg, pound raisins, one of currants, four cups of Albers flour.

Hygienic Cake

Three eggs, one cup sugar, one cup Albers flour, two tablespoons hot water. Beat twenty miutes without stopping, and bake three-quarters of an hour in slow oven. This recipe makes a small cake. Nuts can be added if desired.

Apple Sauce Cake

One cup of sugar, one of chopped raisins, one-half of butter, two of Albers flour, one of sour apple sauce, one teaspoonful soda, half a teaspoonful each ground cloves, cinnamon and allspice, pinch salt, half a cup chopped walnuts. Cream sugar and butter together, put the soda in the apple sauce, then add to sugar, stir well together, then the flour and spices, raisins and nuts last. Bake in slow oven one hour and ten minutes.

Gold Cake

Beat well the yolks of eight eggs, one cupful of granulated sugar, one-quarter of a cupful of butter, one-half cupful of sweet milk, one and one-half cupfuls of Albers flour, one teaspoonful baking powder Cream butter and sugar together. Beat the yolks thoroughly, then stir in the butter and sugar; add the milk, then the Albers flour, and stir hard. Bake in a cake mold about forty minutes.

German Fruit Cake

One and one-half cups of Albers flour, one teaspoon butter, rubbed together; pinch of salt, one teaspoonful baking powder, milk to make batter thin enough to spread (a little thicker than cake). Put in a layer of fresh fruit all over the top and sprinkle with sugar.

Angel Cake

Whites of nine large eggs, a heaping cup sugar, a cup Albers flour, sifted five times, one teaspoonful of baking powder, a dash of salt, one-half teaspoonful each of lemon and vanilla extract. Separate the eggs add salt and baking powder to the whites and beat till stiff; add sugar and flavoring, beat thoroughly, then carefully turn in the flour. Bake in a moderate oven fifty minutes.

Chocolate Squares

Beat three eggs in one cup of sugar, one teaspoonful each of allspice, cloves, cinnamon; two tablespoonfuls chocolate, teaspoonful vanilla; cup Albers flour with one teaspoonful baking powder and lastly a good supply of chopped nuts and raisins and two tablespoons of whiskey. Mix thoroughly and bake in a large pan half inch thick in moderate oven. Frost with following frosting: Half cup of powdered sugar and one tablespoon of boiling water, mix until smooth and put on cake. Cut in squares when cool, but not cold.

Dried Apple Fruit Cake

One pint of dried apples, soaked over night, then chopped fine; let them simmer in one cup of molasses a little while; add four eggs, two cups sugar, one cup buttermilk, one cup shortening, one tablespoonful soda, one tablespoonful cinnamon, one tablespoonful allspice, one tablespoonful cloves.