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 No. 9. RAISIN CAKE

1 teaspoon baking powder or soda

Cream sugar and lard; if soda is used, dissolve in sour milk; if baking powder, sift with the flour; add the sour milk to the sugar and lard; stir well; then add all the dry ingredients sifted together; mix well; then stir in the raisins and flavor with orange and vanilla blended; ¾ hours in medium oven.

No. 10. SPICE CAKE

Mix molasses and butter; add milk, and then the flour, raisins and spices; mix thoroughly and put in loaf pans and bake 1 hour in a slow oven.

No. 11. EGGLESS LAYER CAKE

Mix cream, sugar, salt and lemon extract together; dissolve soda in two tablespoons of cold water and add to the mixture. Stir in the flour a little at a time till quite smooth. Butter two cake pans, fill half full of batter and bake in a moderate oven 45 minutes. Use any filling desired.

No. 12. BANANA CAKE

1 heaping teaspoon baking powder

Mash bananas with sugar; add the water, butter and baking powder and enough flour to make a dough that drops easily from a spoon. Bake in shallow pans in a quick oven. 5