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Marble or Bismarck Cake

3 cupfuls white sugar. 1 cupful butter. 1 cupful sour cream, or buttermilk 5 cupfuls flour. Whites of 8 eggs. 1 small spoonful soda. This is for the white batter.

Dark Batter. 2 cupfuls coffee sugar. 1 cupful molasses. 1 cupful sour cream. 1 cupful butter. 5 cupfuls flour. 1 teaspoonful soda. Yolks of 8 eggs, and a whole one. 1 wine-glassful mixed spices, finely powdered. Put in the pan, in alternate layers of light and dark batter. Bake quickly, like sponge cake. Ice and ornament with chocolate drops. This fills a two-pound mould.