Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the spices, lemon, and mo lasses. Dissolve the soda in 1 table spoonful cold water, and stir into the sour milk. Add this and the egg well beaten, then the flour, and beat brisk ly. Pour into a well-buttered pan, and bake in a moderate oven fifty minutes. This cake will keep moist some time. One half cupful stoned raisins and cupful currants may be stirred lightly into the batter just be fore it is put in the pan, if you wish a fruit cake.
Blackberry-Jam Cake.
cupful butter, cupful sugar, 1 cupful flour, cupful stoned raisins, cupful blackberry jam, 2 tablespoonfuls sour cream or milk, teaspoonful soda, nutmeg grated, 2 eggs.
Beat the butter to a cream, then, beat in the sugar. When very light, beat in the jam and nutmeg. Dis solve the soda in 1 tablespoonful cold Nirater, and add it to the sour cream. Add this and the egg well beaten to the other ingredients. Now add the flour and beat for half a minute. Sprinkle a tablespoonful flour over the raisins, and stir them in lightly. Pour the batter into a well-butte?ed pan, and bake fifty rainutes. This makes one small loaf. This cake may be put away to be used as a pudding when convenient. Steam it an hour, and serve with a wine sauce. It is almost as good as a plum pudding.
Maple-Sugar Gingerbread.
1 egg, 1 cupful thick maple sirup, 2 cupfuls flour, A cupful sour milk, A cupful butter, A teaspoonful ginger, A teaspoonful soda, teaspoonful salt, Rind and juice A lemon.
Beat the butter to a cream, and add the sirup and flavoring. Dissolve
the soda in 1 tablespoonful cold water and stir into the sour milk. Add this and the egg well beaten to the other ingredients, then the flour. Beat well; pour into a buttered pan. This quan tity will make one small loaf or a thin sheet. If baked in a loaf, leave in oven fifty minutes; if in a sheet, twenty-five minutes.—Miss PARLOA.
Holiday Cake.
1 cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, 1 cupful molasses, A teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful mixed spices, 1 egg, 1 cupful sour milk, 1 teaspoonful soda, Flour, 1 cupful raisins and currants, Small quantity citron.
Mix together the butter, sugar, mo lasses, salt, spices, and egg; beat well, then add the sour milk with the soda stirred in, and flour enough to make quite thick; add the raisins, currants, and citron. This makes two medium loaves, and will keep for weeks.
Marble Layer Cake.
A cake Runkel's Chocolate, 1 teaspoonful baking soda, A cupful warm water, 2 cupfuls maple sugar, 2 eggs, A cupful butter, 1 cupful sour milk, 9i cupfuls flour.
Melt the chocolate over hot water, dissolve the soda in the warm water; beat the butter to a cream. Add the eggs beaten without separating, and beat in gradually the sugar—beat for at least ten minutes. Pour the soda and water in the sour milk; add this with the melted chocolate to the egg mixture; now stir in the flour. Beat and bake in three layers. When cold, put together with maple or caramel filling.