Place in a mixing bowl

  Three-quarters cup of brown sugar,
  Two cups of flour,
  One teaspoon of salt,
  Two tablespoons of baking powder,
  One teaspoon of cinnamon,
  One teaspoon of ginger,
  One-half teaspoon of cloves,
  One-half cup of cocoa.

Sift to mix and then rub in

  One-half cup of shortening

and

  One cup of syrup,
  Two cups of sour milk,
  Three-quarters teaspoon baking soda,
  Two cups of fine bread crumbs,
  One package of seedless raisins.

Dissolve the baking soda in the milk.  Beat all hard to mix and then pour into well-greased and floured oblong pans and bake in a slow oven for one hour.  Cool and ice with water icing.  This cake is delicious and will keep, if wrapped in wax paper, for a month.

LOUISIANA CRULLERS

  One cup of sour cream,
  One cup of sugar,
  One level teaspoonful baking soda,
  One level teaspoonful nutmeg,
  One egg.

Beat to thoroughly blend and then add four and one-half cupfuls of flour.  Roll out on a floured pastry board and then cut and fry in hot vegetable cooking oil until they are golden brown.  The temperature for cooking crullers in the oil is 360 degrees Fahrenheit.

MORAVIAN SPICE CAKE

  One and one-half cups of brown sugar,
  Nine tablespoons of shortening,
  One egg,
  One cup of sour milk,
  One teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in the milk,
  Two teaspoons of cinnamon,
  One teaspoon of ginger,
  One-half teaspoon of allspice,
  One-half teaspoon of cloves,
  Five tablespoons of cocoa,
  Three and one-half cups of sifted flour,
  One level tablespoon of baking powder,
  One-half cup of chopped nuts,
  One-half package of seedless raisins.

Beat to mix and then bake in well-greased and floured loaf-shaped pans in moderate oven for forty minutes.  Ice with chocolate icing made as follows: 

  One cup of XXXX sugar,
  Six tablespoons cocoa,
  One tablespoon of cornstarch.

Sift to mix and then add just sufficient boiling water to make a mixture that will spread.

TWO LAYER CAKE

Place in bowl

  One and one-half cups of sugar,
  Yolks of two eggs.

Cream, then add

  One-half cup of shortening,

Cream again, then add

  Three cups of flour,
  Two level tablespoons baking powder,
  One teaspoonful flavoring,
  One cup of water or milk.

Beat just enough to mix, then fold in whites of two eggs, bake in well-greased and floured deep layer-cake pans in moderate oven twenty minutes.

Every variety of layer cake may be made from this foundation.  To chocolate layer cake—­put together with chocolate icing and cover cake with same icing.