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Favorite Dishes in Famous Homes: Beat

Beat together thoroughly eggs, sug ar, flour, and baking powder, add nuts and dates. Pour into a baking dish, set it in a pan of boiling water and bake about half an hour. Let it cool, still standing in the water, chill, and serve with whipped cream.

This pudding is a great favorite with children.

From Mrs. Samuel G. Cosgrove, wife of Governor of Washington.

Potato Cake. cupful butter, 2 cupfuls sugar, Yolks 4 eggs, 1 cupful hot mashed potato, 2 squares chocolate, ½ cupful milk, 2 cupfuls flour, 3½ teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 teaspoonful each cinnamon and nutmeg, teaspoonful ground cloves, I cupful chopped walnut meats, Whites 4 eggs.

Cream together butter and 1 cupful sugar, beat to a froth yolks of eggs with remainder of sugar, then blend both mixtures thoroughly together.

Add potatoes, chocolate melted over hot water, and alternately milk with flour, which has been sifted with baking powder and spices. Last, add whites of eggs whipped to a stiff froth and walnut meats. Bake in layers or a loaf cake as desired, and cover with a chocolate or a white frosting.

From Mrs. W. R. Stubbs, wife of Governor of Kansas.

Pickled Peaches. 1 gallon peeled peaches, 3 pounds sugar, 1 pint pure cider vinegar, 2 dozen cloves, 6 sticks cinnamon.

Boil vinegar, sugar, cinnamon, and cloves fifteen minutes, then pour liquor over peaches and let stand over night in stone jar covered with a plate. Next morning pour off liquor and heat to boiling point, then add peaches to boiling liquor and let cook slowly until tender. Seal in glass jars.

From Mrs. Parker Morgan, one of the 400.

Raspberry Buns. 1 pound flour, pound lard, 6 ounces sugar, teaspoonful salt, 1½ teaspoonsfuls baking powder, 1 egg, A little milk.