How we cook in Tennessee ..

Filling. — Two cups of white sugar, half a cup of cold water ; cook till it begins to drop thick from the spoon; add fifteen cents worth of fresh marshmallows ; mash until dissolved ; pour this into the white of three eggs beaten stiff; then spread on cake. Devil's Food. — Brown sugar two cups, butter half cup, two eggs, half cup buttermilk, one teaspoon soda, half cake sweet chocolate dissolved in half cup hot water. Beat eggs together in a bowl, add butter not creamed, add milk with soda in it, then flour, chocolate and raisins last. Use caramel filling: — Two cups brown sugar, one tablespoon butter, half cup milk; stir while cooking and put on the cake just before it begins to harden. — Mrs. J. C. Lanham. Devil's Food. — One cup sugar, half cup butter, three cups flour, three eggs beaten separately, half cup milk. Then take one cup grated chocolate, half cup milk, one cup sugar, yolk of one egg and let come to a boil. Add this to the cake batter, and bake in three layers. Filling. — Two cups sugar, one tablespoon vinegar, half cup water. Cook till it candies real stiff; add one-quarter pound marshmallows, the whites of three eggs well beaten. — Mrs. Hibernia Neil. Devil's Food Cake. — Part First. — One cup sugar, one cake grated sweet chocolate, half cup sweet milk, yellows of three eggs. Mix well and cook in hot water to a thick paste; set aside to cool. Part Second. — One cup of sugar, half cup of butter, half cup sweet milk, two cups flour, whites of three eggs, one teaspoon baking powder in flour. Mix well, add dark mixture and bake in two loaves. — Mrs. J. L. Nelson. Black Cake. — One cup of brown sugar, half cup of molasses, two and one-half cups of flour, half cup of sweet milk, one level teaspoon of soda, half cup of butter, two and one-half teaspoons each of cinnamon and cloves, one nutmeg, one pound raisins, two eggs. — Mrs. Balch. Blackberry Jam Cake. — Make as in the recipe below and use one cup seeded raisins chopped very fine. You can hardly tell it from fruit cake. — Housekeeper. Blackberry Cake. — Three eggs, one cup sugar, three-quarters cup butter, two cups flour, one cup of jam, three tablespoons sour cream, one teaspoon soda dissolved in cream, one teaspoon each of spice and cinnamon and nutmeg, three tablespoons of whiskey. Bake in layers and put together with icing. — Mrs. S. B. Lawrence. Blackberry Cake. — Three eggs, one cup butter, two and onehalf cups flour, six tablespoons sour cream or buttermilk, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon each of cloves, spice, nutmeg and cinnamon, one and one-half cups blackberry jam. Mix spices in coffee and stir in batter. Delicious. — Mrs. A. T. Pegues. Jam Cake. — Cream one cup butter and two of sugar ; add the beaten yolks of eight eggs, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves and allspice, one cup of wine, three of flour, three teaspoons of baking powder, one cup of jam. Bake in layers, put together with a white icing. Nuts in the icing add much to this cake. Cocoa Cake. — One cup sugar, nearly half cup butter, yolk one egg, one teaspoon soda, one cup buttermilk, a pinch of salt, two and one-half cups sifted flour and four teaspoons cocoa dissolved in a little water. Bake in a square pan. Ice and cut in blocks.