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White Part. — One cup white pulverized sugar, onehalf cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, whites of four eggs, two and one-half cups flour, two heaping teaspoons baking powder, or one teaspoon cream tartar and onehalf teaspoon soda. Stir butter and sugar together to a cream, and beat whites of eggs to a stiff froth, which are to be added the last of all ingredients, with the half cup of flour, which must contain the baking powder well mixed in the flour ; season to taste. This is a very good recipe for delicate cake also. Dark Part. — One cup brown sugar, one-half cup molasses, one-half cup sour milk, two and one-half cups flour, one level teaspoon soda dissolved in the milk and in the molasses, yolks of four eggs and one-half cup butter, to be rubbed well together with the sugar ; add onehalf teaspoon cinnamon, allspice and cloves. Either of these make good cake used separately, or well mixed to represent marble. CHOCOLATE CAKE. C. A. Tinkham. One cup butter, two of sugar, five eggs (leaving out the whites of two), one cup sweet milk, one teaspoon cream tartar, one-half of soda, both dissolved in the milk, three and one-half cups of flour, scant measure. For frosting : Take the whites of the two eggs, one and one-half cups of powdered sugar, six large tablespoons grated chocolate, two teaspoons vanilla ; frost while the cake is hot. COCHINEAL MARBLE CAKE. Mrs. Anna Yocum, Cairo, 111. One cup butter, three cups pulverized sugar, five cups flour, one cup water, ten eggs (whites only), three teaspoons yeast powder sifted with flour; cream the butter and sugar by stirring together; beat the whites of the eggs to a froth, and gradually add all together. Before beginning the cake, put a small teaspoon of cochineal to soak in two tablespoons of hot water; bruise it with a spoon, and strain through a piece of Swiss muslin into three-fourths teacup of the cake batter, and as you pour the batter into the cake tin, marble with the red dough. A little practice will produce very satisfactory results. MARBLE CAKE. Mrs. Frances M. Thatcher. One-half cup sour cream, one-half cup butter, two and one-half cups flour, one cup white sugar, the whites of five eggs, two-thirds teaspoon soda; prepare another mixture, except, 'substituting dark sugar for white, and the yolks instead of the whites ; fill a tin with alternate layers of each and bake. HICKORY-NUT CAKE. Mrs. Hobbs. One cup meats (broken), one and one-half of sugar, one-half of butter, two of flour, three-fourths of sweet milk, two teaspoons baking powder, the whites of four eggs well beaten ; add the meats last. HICKORY-NUT CAKE. Mrs. C. C. Stratton, Evanston. Two cups pulverized sugar, one cup butter, one cup new milk, four cups sifted flour (winter wheat flour), whites of eight eggs, one and one-half cups hickory-nut meats, one tablespoon vanilla, three heaping teaspoons baking powder; put the baking powder into the flour, and stir well before using, beat and add the eggs the last ; bake slowly one hour. HICKORY-NUT CAKE. Nellie Gould. Not quite a cup of butter, one and one-half cups sugar, three-fourths cup sweet milk, three cups flour, Mi three teaspoons baking powder, whites of four eggs, one cup hickory-nuts. NUT CAKE. Mrs. Taylor, Fort Wayne.