DELICIOUS CAKES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 140, 5 August 1911, Page 2

DELICIOUS CAKES.

Raisin Cake.—Ci earn together one and a half tablespoons lard or butter and throe tablespoons of sugar. Then add one egg, one cun sweet milk, one quarter teaspoon salt, two cups Hour, three teaspoons baking powder, one half cup small raisins, put in goodsized pan, pour melted butter over top, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and bake in a moderate oven. Ginger Cake. —Sift three-quarters of a pound of flour into a basin ; add one cupful of chopped walnuts,- one half teaspoon of salt, one half teaspoonfnl of soda, one tablespoonful of ground ginger, one toaspoonful of cinnamon, and a little grated nutmeg. Melt together in a saucepan one cupful of molasses, four tahlespoonfuls of butter, one half cupful of milk. Lot tool and add the dry ingredients with two well-beaten eggs. Mix well, then pour into a buttered and {loured cake tin; bake in a moderate oven threoqnai tors of an hour. And serve Dragon Brand Tea, the bent tea that was ever put into a teapot in New /('aland. It is a tea of unusual excellence, pleasing to the palate, and lias an aroma all its own. ft is sold at 2s 8d per lb, and almost all in the district have it in stock.