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Nut Cakes

1 teaspoon baking-powder

2 eggs

½ cup molasses

½ teaspoon salt

½ cup sugar

1 tablespoon butter

1 cup flour

½ cup chopped nut-meats

Beat the eggs slightly and add the molasses and sugar. Mix and sift the flour, baking-powder and salt, and stir them into the first mixture. Add melted butter and nuts, and half fill shallow greased molds with the mixture. Place a nut-meat in the center of each. Bake in a moderate oven (360-380° F.) for twenty-five minutes.

TEA CAKES (WITH NUTS)

1 tablespoon melted fat

3 teaspoons baking-powder

I/2 cup sugar

2 cups flour

1 egg

1 cup chopped nuts

1 cup milk

Cream the fat with the sugar, add the beaten egg, then add the milk alternately with the sifted ingredients. Lastly add the floured nuts. Bake in greased muffin-pans at 400-425° for twenty minutes. Split each cake, butter it, and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon or with grated maple sugar and chopped nuts. Serve hot with afternoon tea.