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Filling for Fudge Cake Sugar, 2 cups, Chocolate, 14 cup. Milk, % cup, Butter, 1 tablespoon. Vanilla, 1 teaspoon. Put into a porcelain-lined saucepan the sugar, chocolate, milk, and butter. The chocolate should be broken small. Boil over a hot fire for 6 minutes ; then take from the range, add the vanilla, and beat until the mixture begins to thicken, then pour quickly over the cake layers. LADY BALTIMORE CAKE Butter, 1 cup, Sugar, 2 cups, Flour, 3^ cups, Sweet milk, 1 cup, Eggs, 6 (whites only). Baking-powder, 2 level teaspoons, Rosewater, 1 teaspoon. Mix it as you would a white cake, and bake in 3 layers. Filling for Lady Baltimore Cake Granulated sugar, 3 cups, Eggs, 3 (whites only), Chopped raisins, 1 cup. Figs, 5, Nut-meats. Cut the figs in very fine strips, and mix with them enough chopped nut-meats to make 1 cupful. Dissolve the sugar in a cup of boiling water. Beat the whites to a stiff froth. Cook the sugar until it threads, then pour it slowly over the beaten whites of the eggs. Stir constantly while pouring it in. Add to this icing the chopped raisins, nut-meats, and figs. Ice, and emboss the sides and top of the cake with this mixture. SAND TARTS Butter, ^2 pound, Granulated sugar, 1 pound, Eggs, 3, Vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon, Flour, Nutmeg. Beat the butter to a cream and then add the sugar. Then add the yolks of the eggs and the whites of 2 of the eggs, which have all been beaten together. Add the vanilla, and just a little grated nutmeg. Mix in barely sufficient flour to make a dough. Dust the baking-board thickly with granulated sugar. Take out a piece of the dough and roll it into a moderately thin sheet. Cut it out with round cutters and bake in a moderately hot oven until a light brown. Dust the top of the sheet with sugar instead of flour, to prevent the roller from sticking. FRUIT DROPS Flour, 2 cups, Sugar, 11/2 cups, Butter, 1 cup, Eggs, 3, Dates, % pound, Figs, 1/4 pound, English walnuts, l^o pounds. Soda, 2 teaspoons, Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon, Allspice, % teaspoon, Salt, a pinch. Cream the butter and sugar. Add the eggs, salt, flour, soda (which must be dissolved in 1 tablespoon of hot water). Also add the dates and figs cut fine, the walnuts, cinnamon, and allspice. Mix all together. Knead with the hands, roll into little balls, and drop on buttered tins, and bake in a hot oven. SURPRISE MACAROONS Shredded cocoanut, 1 cup, Brown sugar, 1 cup. Butter, 1 cup, Eggs, 2, well beaten, Oatmeal, li/^ cups, Chopped raisins, 1 cup, Chopped pecans, 1 cup. Soda, 1 level teaspoon. Cinnamon, i^ teaspoon. Dissolve the soda in a little hot water; mix all the ingredients weU together, and drop, by small teaspoonsful, on paper into a greased baking-pan. Bake in a moderate oven until brown. After taking from the fire, let it stand for a moment. OATMEAL ROCK CAKES Oatmeal, 3 cups, Butter, 4 tablespoons. Sugar, 10 tablespoons. Eggs, 2. Mix together, and drop from a teaspoon upon paper placed in a buttered pan. Bake in a moderate oven until quite brown. OATMEAL SPICED COOKIES