The Laurel Health Cookery: A Collection of Practical Suggestions and Recipes for the Preparation of Non-Flesh Foods in Palatable and Attractive Ways

and beaten eggs. Beat all very thoroughly and put into the tins. When partly risen, stick the fruit in all over the top; let rise about 1½ hr., or until bubbles may be seen; bake 1 hr. in moderate oven. The cake is excellent without fruit. =German Almond Loaf= _Sponge_-- ¾ cup milk 3 tablespns. liquid yeast or 1 cake compressed yeast 3 cups flour _When light_-- 4 yolks of eggs 1 cup sugar ¾ cup butter ¾ cup of warm milk 3-4 cups flour halved blanched almonds or halves of pecans or walnuts grated rind of 1-1½ lemon Beat yolks with sugar and add to butter which has been creamed with part of the flour; then add the flavoring, the sponge, the milk and the flour alternating, beating until the flour is all in. Butter tube mold or other pans thick with cold butter and stick almonds to sides in regular rows. Do not put any in the bottom. Half fill pan with batter and let rise until pan is nearly full; bake 1 hr., or until cake stops singing, in moderate and slow oven so as not to burn nuts. =Cake Without Chemicals= (Mrs. W. W. Wheeler, Ambato, Ecuador.) 1 large cup thin bread sponge 3 eggs, save out 1 white or yolk 1 cup sugar 5 tablespns. oil ⅔ cup flour Beat eggs and sugar, add oil, then the sponge, lastly fold in the flour; put into 3 layer cake pans and let stand for 2 or 3 hours in a not very warm place. Bake in moderate oven. Filling--Beat the white of egg stiff, add 1 tablespn. sugar and 2 tablespns. thick cream, or, make a cream sauce of the yolk. =Maple Loaf Cake= 1 cup bread dough ½ cup butter 1 egg 1 cup maple sugar Cream the butter, add the sugar and beaten egg and mix all thoroughly with the dough; add a little flour, turn into tin and let rise ½ hr. or longer before baking. =Raised Molasses Cake--no eggs or two whites= _Sponge_--2 cups skimmed milk, 4 tablespns. yeast, 4½ cups flour.