Black Walnut Cake

1/2 cup butter (scant).

1 cup water (cold) or milk.

4 egg whites.

1 teaspoon vanilla.

1 1/2 cups sugar.

3 cups Swan's Down flour sifted 3 times 3 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 cup black walnut meats.

Cream the butter and sugar; add 1/2 the water and one cup flour; beat thoroughly and add second cup flour; into the last cup of flour add the baking powder and then remainder of water and beat well. Add the nuts and flavoring and lastly very carefully fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in three round tins in moderate oven. Put together with fig and black walnut filling and top with boiled frosting. Lois Denman Stubbleneld, Bloomington, Ill.

Illinois Wesleyan University.

Marble Cake Light

1/2 cup sugar.

1/2 cup milk.

1 teaspoon baking powder.

1/4 Cup butter.

1 cup flour.

1/2 teaspoon vanilla.

Whites of 2 eggs.

Dark.

1/2 cup sugar.

1/8 cup molasses.

5/8 cup milk.

1 cup flour.

1 teaspoon cinnamon cloves.

1/4 cup butter.

1/8 teaspoon soda.

2 egg yolks.

1 teaspoon baking powder.

1 teaspoon nutmeg.

1/2 teaspoon vanilla.

Cream sugar with butter, add milk, flour which has been sifted with baking powder and flavorings. In making the light part, fold in the beaten egg whites. Drop in alternating spoonfuls of light and dark batter in round or square buttered pan. Bake thirty-five minutes in moderate oven.

Edith V. Grupe, Buffalo, N. Y. University of Buffalo.

Burnt Sugar Cake

Flavoring Syrup

1 cup sugar burned until it smokes blue; then add 1 cup boiling water Boil until the sugar is all dissolved and the syrup is clear.

Cake

1/2 cup butter 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 1/2 cups flour.

2 egg yolks.

1 cup water.

2 teaspoons baking powder.

Beat all together tor five minutes and then add:

3 tablespoons flavoring syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 egg whites beaten stiff Bake in moderate oven. This makes two layers.

Frosting

1 cup sugar.

3 tablespoons water.

Boil until it spins a thread and add:

3 tablespoons flavoring syrup and boil again Pour over two egg whites stiffly beaten.

Frances Domack Richey, Birmingham, Mich.

Quick Layer Cake

Sift together the following:

1 1/2 cups flour 1/4 teaspoon salt.

2 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup sugar.

In measuring cup melt 1/4 cup butter. Add one egg, one teaspoon flavoring, and fill cup with milk. Stir liquids into dry ingredients and beat until well mixed and light. Bake in moderate oven.

Emily H. Butterfield, Farmington, Mich.

Syracuse University.

Apple Sauce Cake

1/2 cup shortening.

1 cup sugar.

1 egg, beaten.

1 3/4 cups flour.

1 teaspoon soda.

1 teaspoon cinnamon.

1/2 teaspoon cloves.

1 cup hot, thick, strained apple sauce (sweetened) 1 cup mixed raisins, nuts, dates 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Cream shortening and sugar, add beaten egg. Mix soda with apple sauce and add flour, spices, vanilla and fruit. Beat for one minute. Turn into pan and sift granulated sugar over top. Bake forty minutes.

Louise Whitmore Arthur, New Haven, N. Y.

Boston University.