Recipes Tried and True

by Ohio). Ladies' Aid Society First Presbyterian Church (Marion

FROSTING.—One-half cup maple syrup or sugar; boil to a taffy; pour over the beaten white of one egg.

VANITY CAKE. MRS. JOHN LANDON.

One and a half cups sugar, half cup butter, half cup sweet milk, one and one-half cups flour, half cup corn starch, teaspoonful baking powder, whites of six eggs; bake in two cakes, putting a frosting between and on top. Grate cocoanut all over.

DEVILS FOOD CAKE. MRS. FENTON FISH.

Two cups darkest brown sugar, one-half cup butter, two eggs, one-half cup sour milk, three cups flour, one pinch salt; mix thoroughly together. Take one-half cup boiling water; stir into this one teaspoon soda, and one-half cup grated Baker's chocolate; stir into batter.

FILLING.—Two cups dark brown sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk or cream. Cook until it threads.

DEVILS FOOD CAKE. MRS. G. H. WRIGHT.

PART I.—One cup brown sugar, three quarters of a cup butter, one-half cup sour milk, two and one-half cups sifted flour, one level teaspoon soda, yolks of three eggs, whites of two. Stir this together, and then add—

PART II.—One cup brown sugar, one-half cup sweet milk, one cup grated chocolate, put this on the stove, let it dissolve, and add while still warm to Part I. Bake in two layers, and put icing between.

DELMONICO'S CAKE. MRS. M. S. LEONARD.