milk, four eggs, one and one-half teaspoons of baking powder, three
cups of flour, one teaspoon each of cinnamon and cloves, one pound of
raisins. This makes two cakes. Pour boiling water on the raisins,
and let stand a few minutes before stoning them.



DRIED APPLE FRUIT CAKE. MRS. W. H. ECKHART.

Take three cups of dried apples, and soak over night; then chop them
fine, and cook slowly for three hours in three cups of baking
molasses, stirring often; let cool over night. Then take two cups of
sugar, one cup of butter, three eggs, four cups of flour, two
teaspoons of baking powder, two teaspoons of ground cinnamon, two
teaspoons of ground cloves, one grated nutmeg, two cups of raisins,
one cup of citron (cut fine), and one pound of figs (chopped).
Lastly, add the cooked apples. Stir all together, and bake as you
would other fruit cake for two hours or longer in rather slow oven.

"ELECTRIC LIGHT FLOUR" is pure, white, and nutritious.



APPLE FRUIT CAKE. MRS. T. H. LINSLEY.

One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, two eggs,
one teaspoon of soda, three and one-half cups of flour, two cups of
raisins, two cups of dried apples, soaked over night, chopped fine,
and then stewed in two cups of molasses. Beat butter and sugar to a
cream; add milk, in which dissolve the soda; then the beaten eggs, the