Mock Angel Food Cake

1 cup flour 1 cup sugar 1 cup milk.

"Whites two eggs.

Pinch of salt 1 teaspoon flavoring 60 minims hydrochloric acid (CP).

% teaspoons soda.

(This amount of soda and hydrochloric acid is equivalent to 3 teaspoons of baking powder).

Sift the flour, sugar, salt and soda together four times. Heat the milk to scalding and beat the egg whites stiff. Pour the scalding milk into the dry ingredients, stirring constantly. Add the hydrochloric acid and stir again, and fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Add the flavoring and turn into an angel food cake pan. Bake in a moderate oven about thirty minutes.

If baking powder is used, omit the soda and hydrochloric acid and sift baking powder with the dry ingredients.'

Economy Ob Light Fruit Cake

1 cup sugar, 1/3 cup butter 2 1/2 cups flour 1 cup milk.

1 cup raisins 1 teaspoon cinnamon 80 minims hydrochloric acid (C. P).

1 teaspoon soda.

(This amount of soda and hydrochloric acid is equivalent to 4 teaspoons of baking powder).

Cream the butter and sugar together and add the hydrochloric acid. Sift the flour, soda, cinnamon and cloves together, reserving a little cf the flour with which to dredge the raisins. Add the milk and dry ingredients alternately to the butter and sugar. Stir in the raisins and bake in muffin pans or as a loaf in an oblong pan.

Gold Cake

Yolks of 8 eggs 1 1/4 cups sugar 2/3 cup butter 2/3 cup milk.

2 1/2 cups flour 2 teaspoons vanilla 80 minims hydrochloric acid (CP).

1 teaspoon soda.

(This amount of soda and hydrochloric acid is equivalent to 4 teaspoons of baking powder).

Sift the flour once, then measure; add the soda and sift three times. Cream the butter, add the sugar slowly, then the well beaten egg yolks and the hydrochloric acid. Add the milk and flour alternately and lastly the flavoring. If baked in one pan, bake in a moderate oven 50 minutes. If baked in two pans, 30 minutes will suffice.

If baking powder is used, omit the soda and hydrochloric acid and sift the baking powder with the flour.

Tea Pretzels

1/3 cup butter cup sugar 1 egg.

2 cups white flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla.

3 dozen almonds.

Cream the butter and add the sugar slowly. When thoroughly creamed, add the beaten egg, the salt and the flavoring. Add the flour. Cover the dough and place on ice an hour or so. Break off small bits and roll into strips the size of a lead pencil. Bring the ends together, cross them and fold back to the middle portion of the strip. Beat one egg slightly and add one tablespoon of milk. Brush the pretzels with the egg mixture. Chop the almonds and press into the dough. Bake in a moderate oven.