Variety Cake.—Make the same as Gold and Silver Cake, and mix a half cup of Zante currants and chopped raisins with the yellow portion. The white portion may be flavored by adding a very little chopped citron instead of the cocoanut, if preferred.
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If families could be induced to substitute the apple—sound, ripe, and luscious—for the pies, cakes, candies, and other sweetmeats with which children are too often stuffed, there would be a diminution of doctors' bills, sufficient in a single year to lay up a stock of this delicious fruit for a season's use.—Prof. Faraday.
Food for repentance—mince pie eaten late at night.
Young Student—"This cook book says that pie crust needs plenty of shortening. Do you know what that means, pa?"
Father—"It means lard."
"But why is lard called shortening, pa?"