COOKIES.
One cup light brown sugar, one-half cup butter, one egg, two tablespoons sweet milk, and two teaspoons of baking powder. Add flower enough to roll thin. Bake in a quick oven. — Mrs. John Alfred.
MARBLE CAKE.
For the white cake: One cup butter, three cups white sugar, five even cups flour, one-half cup sweet milk, one-half teaspoon of soda, whites of eight eggs. Flavor with lemon.
For the dark cake: One cup butter, two cups of brown sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, four cups of flour, yolks of eight eggs and one whole egg, spices of all kinds. Put in pans first a layer of dark, then a layer of white, and so on, finishing with a dark layer. — Mrs. Wm. Morris.
FRUIT CAKE.
One pound of flour, one of brown sugar, three-fourths pound butter, twelve eggs, one and a half pounds raisins, one and one-half pounds currants, one-half pound citron, one-half pound almonds, one-half pound figs, one-half pint sour milk, one level teaspoon soda, two teaspoons each of allspice, cloves and cinnamon, one teaspoon mace. — Mrs. C. A. Frear.