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Calumet Checker-Board Cake

Light Part 2 cups pastry flour 2 level teaspoons Calumet Baking Powder 11/4 cups granulated sugar 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup water teaspoon vanilla Whites of 4 eggs Cream butter and sugar, add water and dry ingredients alternately, then whites of eggs and beat hard. (See illustration, page 52.) Dark Part 3 2 cups pastry flour 1/2 cup water 2 level teaspoons Calumet Baking Powder 1/2 teaspoon each of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg 1 cup brown sugar Yolks of 4 eggs, well beaten 1/2 cup butter Lastly, I ounce of melted chocolate Sift flour once, then measure; add baking powder, and sift three times; cream butter and sugar; add yolks and beat hard, then flour and water alternately; put in square layer pans in strips, light and dark alternately, and place together dark to light. Icing One and one-half cups of confectioner's sugar, with just enough cream to spread; flavor with vanilla.