A SMALL POUND CAKE

  Four ounces of butter,
  One cupful of sugar.

Place in a warm bowl and cream until light and frothy; now add yolks of four eggs and beat well for ten minutes, then add

  Three cupfuls of flour,
  Four level teaspoonfuls baking powder,
  One cupful of milk,
  One teaspoonful of nutmeg.

Beat hard for fifteen minutes and then carefully fold in the stiffly beaten white of an egg and then pour into a prepared pan and bake for sixty minutes in slow oven.

A LARGE POUND CAKE

  One and one-half cupfuls of sugar,
  Eight ounces of shortening.

Cream together until light and fluffy and then add

  Yolks of six eggs,
  Five cupfuls of sifted flour,
  Three level teaspoons of baking powder,
  One and one-half cupfuls of milk,
  One teaspoonful of mace.

Beat for twenty minutes to blend and then carefully fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the six eggs.  Bake in a prepared pan for eighty minutes in a moderate oven.

COBBLER, SOUTHERN STYLE

Select the fruit desired and to one quart of stewed fruit add

  One and one-half cups of fine bread crumbs,
  One cup of brown sugar,
  Three tablespoonfuls of melted shortening,
  One teaspoon of nutmeg or cinnamon.

Mix well and then turn into well-greased baking dish and cover with a crust of pastry.  Bake in a slow oven for forty minutes.  Serve with either fruit or vanilla sauce.

CHERRY ROLY-POLY

Place in a mixing bowl

  Two and one-half cups of sifted flour,
  Two tablespoons of baking powder,
  One teaspoon of salt,
  One-half cup of sugar.

Sift to mix.  Now rub in one-half cup of shortening and mix to a dough with three-quarters cup of water.  Roll out one-quarter inch thick and fill with the prepared cherries.  Roll as for jelly roll and then place in a well-greased and floured pan.  Bake in a moderate oven for thirty-five minutes, basting every ten minutes with syrup made from

  One-half cup of brown sugar,
  Three-quarters cup of boiling water.

To prepare the cherries:  Stone two pounds of cherries and place in a saucepan and add

  One cup of brown sugar,
  Four tablespoons of water.

Cook slowly until the cherries are soft and then add

  Two tablespoons of cornstarch dissolved in
  Three tablespoons of water.

Bring to a boil and cook for five minutes.  Cool and use.  This mixture must be very thick.

OATMEAL DROPS

Place in a saucepan

  One cup of corn syrup,
  One-half cup of shortening,
  One cup of chopped raisins.