½ cupful brown sugar. ¼ cupful butter. ½ cupful molasses. ¼ cupful milk. ½ nutmeg. 1 teaspoonful cinnamon. ½ teaspoonful allspice. 2 cupfuls flour. ½ teaspoonful soda. 1 teaspoonful cream tartar. Yolks of 3 eggs. Put in the mould, alternately, tablespoonfuls of light and dark batter.--_Mrs. D. C. K._ MARBLE OR BISMARCK CAKE. 3 cupfuls white sugar. 1 cupful butter. 1 cupful sour cream, or buttermilk. 5 cupfuls flour. Whites of 8 eggs. 1 small spoonful soda. This is for the white batter. _Dark Batter._ 2 cupfuls coffee sugar. 1 cupful molasses. 1 cupful sour cream. 1 cupful butter. 5 cupfuls flour. 1 teaspoonful soda. Yolks of 8 eggs, and a whole one. 1 wine-glassful mixed spices, finely powdered. Put in the pan, in alternate layers of light and dark batter. Bake quickly, like sponge cake. Ice and ornament with chocolate drops. This fills a two-pound mould. ROSE OR CLOUDED CAKE. 12 eggs, leaving out the whites of 3. 1 pound flour. 1 pound sugar, ¾ pound butter. 2 small teaspoonfuls cream tartar. 2 small teaspoonfuls powdered alum. 1 small teaspoonful soda. 2 small teaspoonfuls cochineal, dissolved in 1/3 cupful boiling water. Having dissolved the alum, soda, and cream tartar, mix with the cochineal. Stir these ingredients in nearly one-third of the batter. Pour into the cake mould a layer of white batter, and a layer of red batter, alternately, beginning and ending with white; three layers of white and two of red. This is an ornamental cake to cut for baskets. SPICE CAKE. Yolks of 4 eggs. Mix 2½ teaspoonfuls yeast powder in 2½ cupfuls flour. 1 cupful brown sugar. ½ cupful syrup, ½ cupful butter, must be melted after being measured. Stir with the sugar 2½ teaspoonfuls powdered cloves. 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon. 1 teaspoonful powdered allspice. The spices must be put in the flour, the syrup added after the sugar and butter are stirred together, then the eggs and milk, and lastly the flour. Mix the above alternately, in your pans, after having them buttered.--_Mrs. W._ CREAM CAKE. 2 cupfuls of sugar. 3 cupfuls of flour. ½ cupful of butter. 3 eggs. 1 cupful of sour milk. 1 teaspoonful of soda. 2 teaspoonfuls of cream tartar. Dissolve the soda in the milk, melt the butter and add it to the eggs. Add the sugar and cream tartar to the flour. Pour it all together in shallow pans that have been well greased. Bake twenty minutes.