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Cookies, Cakes, and Doughnuts: Cake

Cocoa Cake. cupful butter, 2 cupfuls coffee sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cupful sour milk, 1 scant teaspoonful Calumet baking soda, 2 cupfuls flour, cupful Runkel's Cocoa.

Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, then add the other ingredients.

Bake in a moderate oven. Cover with chocolate icing.

Dried-Apple Cake. 2 cupfuls molasses, 3 cupfuls dried apples, 1 cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, 1 cupful sour milk, 1 teaspoonful soda, 4 eggs, 4 cupfuls flour, 1 cupful currants, 1 cupful raisins, 1 teaspoonful cloves, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 nutmeg.

Soak apples in as little water as possible over night; in the morning chop fine and boil half an hour in molasses. When cold, add butter, sugar and milk dissolved with soda, eggs, flour, fruit, and spices. Bake in a slow oven.

Spice Cake. 1 cupful sugar, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoonfuls butter, cupful sour milk, cupful strong coffee, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful Calumet baking powder, 2½ cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful nutmeg.

Cream sugar and butter, and add the milk, coffee, soda, baking powder, flour, spice, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Bake in a medium-sized pan, and frost with powdered sugar mixed with cream.

Devil's Cake. 2 cupfuls dark-brown sugar, cupful butter, cupful sour milk, teaspoonful soda, 3 cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful Calumet baking powder, 2 eggs, cupful Runkel's Chocolate, ground.