GOOD CAKE

2 cups brown sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon
8 cup butter 1 tsp. cloves

2 cups raisins z tsp. nutmeg
2 cups cold water 1 tsp. salt

Boil all together for 3 minutes; when cold add 2 teaspoons soda dissolved
in a little hot water, 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder in sifted flour.

Mrs .T. Thulien, Veteran.

CHERRY POUND CAKE

Standard size loaf tin— line and grease well.

= cup butter 5 egg yolks
1 cup white sugar
Cream. Add egg yolks. Beat about 5 minutes.

Add and beat: Sift and add:

6 tbsp. milk 2 cups all-purpose flour
% tsp. almond extract 4 tsp. baking soda

1 tbsp. lemon juice. % tsp. cream of tartar

5 egg whites — beat stiff then fold in batter.

1 or 1% cups cherries — use a little of the 2 cups of flour to dredge ina
sieve (this is the secret of cherries “floating’’), returning flour not used to
the 2 cups.

Pour batter in pan, sprinkle floured cherries over cake evenly and press
down—some to middle of cake, none on top of surface. Bake at 375° with
water pan underneath for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Turn out and peel off foil
or paper. Other fruit may be substituted as this is a basic batter. Keeps

well and freezes.
Mrs. W. Kittler, Hanna, Alta.

BOILED RAISIN CAKE

4 cup butter 1 tsp. soda
1 cup brown sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon
2 eggs 1 tsp. cloves
2 cups raisins 1% cups flour

Method: Cover raisins with water—simmer and cool. Cream butter and
sugar, add eggs. Dissolve soda in cooled raisins and add to first mixture.
Add flour and spice mixture last. Pour in greased pan and bake in 250°

oven for 30 to 35 minutes.
Mrs. Clara McCorkle, Ft. Macleod.

WHITE FRUIT CAKE

% cup butter 14 cups sugar
4 eggs (beaten) 3 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder 2 cups sultana raisins
1 can crushed pineapple 1 cup cocoanut

Bake 2% hours in moderate oven.
Mrs. Wayne Robinson, Magrath.

WHITE FRUIT CAKE

1% cups sugar 1 Ib. sultana raisins

1 cup butter % cup blanched almonds, slivered

1 cup skim milk 1 bottle maraschino cherries

34 cups flour % Ib. glazed cherries

2 tsp. baking powder 1 slice each of green, yellow,
Pinch of salt red pineapple

4 egg whites beaten stiff Grated rind of orange and

1 cup cocoanut lemon

Mrs. E. Frost.
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