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A NOVELTY IN puDDINes.
Carrot Fruit Pudding Delicious Al
dition to the Menu.

a fruit carrot pudding is a novelty
which / urge you TO try. A hostess
never makes a mistake in having hot
fruit pudding at dinner where men
are present, for il is a universal favor
ite. Free one cupful of beel suet
from membranes. and work until
creamy, which may be most easily ac-
complished by using the hands. Add
two and twO-thirds cupfuls of stale
bread crumbs and one cupful of grated
carrot. Beat the yOlks of four eggs
until very light, and add gradually
while beating constantly, one and one
third cupfuls OF brown sugar Combine
the mixtures, and add the grated rind
Of one lemon and one tablespoonful OF
strong vinegar. Mix one cupful or
raisins that have been seeded and cut
in pieces three-fourths Ot cupful OF
currants; then dredge with one-third
cupful of -four mixed and sifted
with one and One-half teaspOOnfuls Of
salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one
half teaspoOnful of grated nutmeg and
one-fourth OF a teaspOonful OF cloves.
Add this TO the mixture, then also add
the whites of four eggs beaten until
stiff Turn into a buttered mold decor
ated with raisins and citron cut in
diamond shaped pieces, and adjust
the cover.
A few currants will adhere to the
mold if it is we'll buttered. Place the
mold on a trivet in a kettle contain
ing boiling water. allowing water to
come half way up around the mold.
Cover closely. and steam three and
one-half hours, adding more boiling
water as needed. Remove from the
mold. and serve with sterling sauce.
Cream One-fOuTth of a cupful of butter,
using a small wooden spoon; then
add gradually, while beating constant
ly, one cupful of brown sugar mixed
with three-fOurths of a tablespoonful
of flour. Add very gradually three
tableSpOOnfuls of sherry or Madeira
wine, the yolks of two eggs well beat
en-, and one-half cupful of milk. Cook
over hot water, stirring constantly,
until the mixture thickens. Pour onto
the well beaten whites of two eggs.
cook one minute, and serve.-WOm-
ans Home Companion.
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RECIPES OF WORTH
DIRECTIONS FOR SOME NEW AND
SANCRY DISHES.
Poached Egss in Puff Paste-5raziIiaT
Stew-Mutson Charlotte and Cur
ried Mutton Make Welcome
Change in the Menu.

Peached Eggs in Puff Paste.-Poach
four to six eggs; trim, and let them
get quite cold Prepare the following
mixture: A teaspOOnful each chopped
capers, gherkins, olives and parsley,
a teaspOonful anchOvy paste. worked
smoothly into some thick double
cream. as much caienne as will lie
en- the top of a dime and a squeeze of
lemon juice, added slowly not to cuTdle
the cream. Work the ingredients
into. the cream mixture, inclOse each
egg. with some of the cream mixture,
in small cover of puff paste. Bake
in quick oven. Serve hot.
Sponge Custards.-Cut some sponge
cake in dice, and half fill custard
cups with 1t; melt little raspberry
or strawberry jam, and pour about a
tablespoonful on each, so that it runs
in between the pieces Of sponge cake.
Make a custard with three eggs, a pint
of milk, eight Jumps of sugar and a
few drops of essence of almonds; ;
nearly I'LL the cups with it whilst it is
warm, then whip some cream and put
a dessertspoonful on each when quite
cold.
Brazilian Stew.-Cut up a two
pound shin of beef into pieces two
and one-half inches square; let them
lie in vinegar for ten minutes, then
drain and put them in brown earth
enWare jar with two Spanish onions
cut in slices, two small carrots sliced,
three tomatoes in quarters, one ounce
of butter, two tablespOOnfuls of water;
season rather highly with pepper and
salt; cover closely, and stew in the
oven for three hours. Ten minutes
before serving mix a tablespoonful of
-four with a little cold water to a
paste, pour into the jar, stir round and
replace in the oven.
Mutton CharIotte.-Line a piedish
with slices of bread and butter rather
less than half an inch thick. Finely
mince some cold roast mutton with a
little onion, season with pepper, salt
and chopped parsley. Fill the dish
with this mixture, pour in little well
seasoned stock. cover with a thick
layer of mashed potatoes and bake for
from one to one ald One-half hours.
Curried Mutton.-Fry two large
onions in one ounce of butter with two
small or one large sour apple cut in
slices. When quite brown and tender
put into a saucepan with slices of cold
cooked meat, either beef or mutton, a
little chopped carrot. one large table
spoonful of curry powder. One-half tea
spoonful of salt, a teaspOOnful of
grated cOcOanut and one-half pint of
stock. Stew very gently for two hours.
then serve surrounded by border of
boiled rice
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Autumn Ieaf Cakes

Two cups flour. two eggs, half tea
spoon salt, one teaspoon cold water.
Mix all together. flour breadbOard
lightly, roll the mixture into a large
inch squares, and drop few at a time
in deep hot butter; when brown on
one side turn over, remove from fry
ing pan, put in more leaves; when all
are done sprinkle with powdered
sugar. You will have a large platter
Of the most delicious cookies that the
most delicate stomach can digest. The
hot butter makes them grow into the
most lovely shapes that resemble fall
en- leaves.
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Candied Chestnuts.

Cook a pint of chestnuts until ten.
der in slightly salted water, drain.
Melt two ounces of chocolate over hot
water and add a teaspoorlul of vanilla.
Mix one cupful of granulated sugar
with two tablespoonfuls of water, boil
without stirring until a little dropped
into cold water crystallizes to the
brittle point at once. Take it off the
fire and add the chocolate Dip the
chestnuts one by one into this, laying
them on waxed paper. Let cool and
store in air-tight cans. The chocolate
may be omitted and the sirup colored
pink or green and if favored with
wintergreen or peppermint makes a
pretty and acceptable after dinner
sweet
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MAKES A GOOD COMBINATION.
Prunes and Oranges for Jam Are
Highly Recommended.

Prunes and oranges make a good
combination for jam. Get the large
sized prunes, if possible. wash them
thoroughly in both hot and cold water,
then cut from the pit. Put the fruit
through a meat chopper To each
cupful of chopped prunes take cup
ful of cut oranges.
Put in the grated rind of One-half
of the oranges used, then peel and cut
them in small pieces. Good California
prunes will sweeten themselves, but
with the orange they will require
some sugar. A large tablespoonful Of
sugar to each cupful of orange will
be sufficient if the oranges are fairly
sweet ones. To two cupfuls of prunes
add One-half cUpful OF water Stir all
well together and stand on the back
of the range in a tightly covered ket-
tie or crock.
Do not let it get too hot, but it
may remain at a simmering heat half
a day or longer with frequent stir
rings and hastings, when it will be
ready to pack in the jars.
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SavorY Rolls.

Brown half of a small, minced onion
in one tablespoonful of butter, and
blend with it one heaping tablespoon
full of -four. Add one cupful of con-
somme, one cupful of cold meat,
chopped fine, two hard-boiled eggs,
also chopped, salt, paprika, bits of
parsley and simmer for a moment
Have ready rich biscuit dough, from
which break off pieces the size of an
egg and roll out as for dumplings.
Place a spoonful of the above mixture
on each, adding plump olive and a
seeded raisin, roll into oblong shape,
pinching securely together, place in a
buttered baking dish, pour over them
a large cupful of consOmme, and bake
in a rather quick oven.
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West virrinia,s New CITY

West Virginia is to make an expert
ment in a Jim Crow city. This city
has been laid out near Charleston. the
capital OF the state. and it is expected
thar within year it will contain a
population of several thousand. No
white person will be allowed to reside
within its limits or 70 own property
therein In the midst of this little
africa is situated the state colored
nigh school Educational facilities will
De ample and the-e will be electric
Ashts, sewers aad park The city Will
De- soverGeG. Of course. by the negro
inhabitants, and the whole state will
watch with .ursTcs. The progress OF
'h' experiment as testing the capacity
oI The negro Ior sc.f-zovernmall-Eal
umore Sun.
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Ham Salad for Sandwiches.

One pound cold boiled ham, one
pound cold boiled tongue, chopped fine
Add One-half quantity fine chopped
celery, then mix thoroughly. Dressing
pint vinegar, butter size of an egg
beat two eggs. two tablespoons mus
tard, one tablespoon black pepper, two
tablespoons sugar, one teaspoon salt
Beat well together, pour in vinegar
cook until it thickens. When cool mi1
thoroughly with meat and celery. Fix
day before using. Keep in cool place
Spread the bread on each side and add
a crisp lettuce leaf before folding to
gether.
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Excellent Potato soup.

A wellmade potato soup is just the
thing for luncheon some day when you
are at a loss for something hot and
wholesome. A quart of milk, six large
potatoes, one stick of celery, an onion
a tablespoonful of butter. Put milk to
boil with onion and celery; pare the
potatoes and boil them until they are
thoroughly done; turn of the water
and mash fine; add milk and butter
pepper and salt; rub through a strain,
er and serve Immediately This soup
must not be allowed to stand
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sutterseotch Pie.

One cup milk. one cup brown sugar,
one tablespoon cornstarch, two eggs /;
heat the milk in a double boiler; when
hot add the brown sugar. stirring well
until dissolved. Then add the corn
starch mixed with a little milk and
the yolks of two eggs; stir until thick,
beating all the time to prevent it get
ting lumpy. Bake in an undercrust;
when baked make meTingue with
the whites of two eggs and two table
spoons of white sugar; spread over
the top and put in the oven to brown
slightly. Good hot, but better cold.
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SMART INDIAN WOMAN
uulA ST. CYR OF WikNE5Aeo
TRIBE is ONLY LAWYER.
recently Acquitted at Omaha of chars-
mo Aced SoUaW an Excessive
Pension Fee-Has Large
Practice.

Omaha. Neb.-The only Indian wom-
,n LAWYER in the United States, Julia
s. Cvr. a member of the WinAebagO
,rfbe was before the United States
court in Omaha recently, where,
through a white attorney. she defend
81 herself against a charge of having
,,eelted 100 large a fee as a pension
st,osney from an aged squaw, whose
husband had been a scout under Sher-
tsan. So well did she direct her at
,orDey in her defense that the jury
touDd for her oA the first ballot.
During the trial Miss St. CyT shed a
few tears at critical moment But
having departed from the customary
sioHdty of the Indian character long
enough to make her impression on the
urvmen, she returned to the impas-
awe mask Of the red man, and when
tbe verdict was announced she said
With the greatest Indifference:
Well. knew it would be that way.
Miss ST. Cyr did not attempt to
thank the jury for its verdict, but with
head ereet stalked out of the court.
room
She is a woman of intellectual at
tEinments and is we'll known among
The Winnebago and Omaha tribes.
When an Indian of either of these
tribes gets into trouble he runs to
Mss St Cyr for advice, and so much
influence has she over them that very
few Of the cases ever reach a court
Of law, but are settled by her out OF
court. Her word is very near law
or the reservation.
Although educated at Hampton, Va,
and later placed in charge of an In
dian school on the KickapOO reserva-
non. Miss St. .Cyr has persistently re-
fused TO adopt the customs of the
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white people and at the tribal cere-
monies she always takes an active
part dressed in beads and moccasins.
as her people have always dressed.
She has never been licensed to prac-
hce before the United States court.
and in the present case was compelled
to employ a white lawyer to do her
talking, but all during the trial she
Cat with her attorney, whom she
coached, directing the case herself in
every way.
Miss st. Cyr gets her French name
from her father, a half-breed French
Indian, who m turn inherited it from his
ancestor Louis St Cyr, French noble
man who was banished by the first
Napoleon and who came to New Or
leans Then he came north along
the Mississippi and Missouri and to-
gether with other Frenchmen, mar.
ned into the WinnebagO tribe. The
descendants of those old Frenchmen
have kept the language pure, and
probably the French of those red In
cianS is as near the court language
OF The French monarchs as can be
found in Paris at the present time.
When Miss ST Cyr was placed on
tral several Indians were in the room
as Witnesses. When she so transcend
ed Indian customs as TO shed tears
those Indians in disgust put on their
broad-brimmed hats and left the
courtroom.
Miss St Cyr is the only Indian wom-
an in the country who has entered
uICn the practice of law, and is one
Of the very few who have taken I'D
any professional or business life.
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Peach Tapioca,

Soak one cup of tapioca over night
in a quart of water. In the morning
put tapioca and the water it was
soaked in and cook one hour in the
double boiler. Then take from stove
and a6d one-haif teaspoon of salt.
three-foufths cup of sugar and juice
from one can of peaches and stir
thoroughly. Then into a pudding dish
pour a layer of this tapiOca, then lay
in the peaches and pour the rest of
the tapioca over them, and bake in
a moderate oven one hour. Eat with
whipped cream.
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Ensalada Mixta.

This is a refreshing Cuban salad
On a foundation of crisp lettuce leaves
place bits of cold boiled potatoes,
string beans, asparagus, slices of raw
onion, also of green sweet peppers,
olives, cold boiled eggs and radishes
Pour over all a dressing of oil, salt
pepper and vinegar. This is a good
way to use small quantities of vege
tables left over. as corn, peas, beets
and other things add to the tOothsome
ness of it. A little care in arranging
makes also a pretty dish.
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Bechamel Sauce.

Three level tablespoons butter,
three level tablespoons flour. one-half
level teaspoon salt, dash of nutmeg,
hot stock, three-fourths cup cream,
two egg yolks beaten lightly, one and
one-half tablespoons lemon juice.
Melt the butter and when hot add
the -four, salt, nutmeg, and cayenne.
When blended add the hot stock grad
ually. Stir until thick and smooth, and
cook for five minutes; add the cream.
cook one minute; then beat in the
egg yolks and lemon juice.
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Ironing Pad from OLD Blanket.

A three cOrnered pad made from
several thicknesses of old blanket or
table padding and covered with a
mans old pocket handkerchief or a
piece of old linen is convenient to slip
underneath embroidered mOnOgrams
on table and bed linen or the hand
embroidery on waists and lingerie,
which are so much more effective
when irOned over a heavy pad. If a
loop of tape is sewed to one corner
the pad can be hung on the ironing
board
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TRY THIS KISS PUDDING"
Something New in the Way of I
Light and Delicious Dessert.

Put one pint of milk in a double
boiler; heat to boiling point and add
Three tablespOOnfuls of sugar and two
tablespOonfuls of cornstarch, which
which have been dissolved in a little
milk. Let boil, stirring constantly;
add the whites of three eggs, which
have been beaten to a very stiff
froth; beat the mixture well and pour
into teacups, filling them half full.
Set aside TO cool and make sauce
for same as follows: Bring to boiling
point one pint of milk in a double boil
er, then add three tablespoOnfuls
sugar and three beaten egg yolks.
thinned with one tablespoonful milk.
Stir constantly until it thickens (do
not boil or it will curdle). flavor with
lemon or vanilla and add a pinch of
salt. Cool and pour over pudding
and serve.
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WASHING Dishes Made Easy.

Put a dish pan half full of water
on the stove when you begin to get
dinner. AS you use a pan or dish
wash it and put it away. Lastly, wash
frying pans and kettles, then throw
out water. After dinner you will not
have such a discOuraging looking
kitchen. There will be no pans or
kettles with dried food to be soaked
out, and the dishes from the dining
room are easily washed.
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Ginuer PuHs.

One cup light brown sugar, oae egg,
one teaspoonful of ginger, one cup mo-
Iasses, two level teaspoonfuls of sal.
aratus. dissolved in one cup Of hot
water, one cup melted lard, four cup
fuls hour; mix in the order given and
drop by a tablespoon about two inches
apart in a dripping pan. Bake in q
quick oven
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CREOLE DELICACIES
TRY THESE WHEN SEEKING
SOMETHING NEW.
Appetizina Preparations from Canned
Fish-Good Way TO Prepare Rice
-"Griades" d Popular Dish in
the South.

Something new" Something
newt" is the eternal cry of the house
keeper. Truly. every woman who keeps
house must tire of preparing or even
ordering the same old things. Some
very famous creole recipes that have
come direct from old families may an
swer this cry. Surely the southern
ers live well. and these recipes are
delicious from the old test, the
proof OF the pudding is in the eating.
Canned fish of all kinds, If the best
brands are purchased. help to change
the menu during the cold winter days,
and the recipe for shrimp fricassee
that follows will make a very appe-
tizing dish when old recipes have
grown stale:
Shrimp FricasSee-Put a teaspoon
full OF lard in a saucepan; when it is
hot stir in one spoonful of -four; stir
over the fire until the -four is a rich
brown; then add one onion chopped
fine and when that has fried a little
(but before it browns) add two table
spOonfuls of tomatoes. Let it stew
little with the saucepan covered on
slow fire; then when the tomatoes
have melted down add two cups of hot
water, season to taste with salt, pep
per and cayenne. Let it stand a few
minutes before dinner, then put in the
shrimps. one or two cans. according to
the number Of guests The shrimpS
will break II put in too early.
Rice is such substantial and
served just plain boiled the men in
the family generally say: No, thank
you" Some time try the following
for a change and see what they will
say:
Creole Rice-Wash one-half cup of
rice and cook in a double boiler until
tender Lay two good-sized pieces
of bacon into a hot frying pan and
cook to a crisp, but do not burn. Add
to these drippings half an onion
sliced fine and brown, then add half
a cup OF tomatoes and the rice, sea
son with cayenne pepper and salt and
stew together until it has all blended.
A very popular dish of beef, known
in the south as "Griades," is an ap-
petizing dish that is easily prepared
as follows:
Griades-Take two pounds of beef
lthe bottom round if pOssible), slice
thin, trim off all the fat and cut in
pieces about the size of the inside
of your hand. Put one spoonful OF
lard in a saucepan. When the lard
is hot drop your meat, which must
be first properly washed, in the hot
lard, add a little salt, black pepper
and cayenne; cover the saucepan and
let the meat stew, or rather, boil, for
the juice of the meat will boil out,
stir occasionally and let all the juice
of the meat boil out; when il begins
to get dry stir it till it browns When
it is of a nice brown color sprinkle in
the saucepan about one teaspoonful OF
| -four; when that is brown move it of
the hot fire so that it will not burn
and add three or four good-sized
onions sliced. and three or four large
i tablespoonfuls of tomatoes. Let il
all smother with the cover on the
saucepan, stirring once in awhile, till
the onions and tomatoes are all melt,
ed to a rich gravy, then add two tea
spOonfuls of boiling water and season
| to taste ard let it boil about one hour
flavor if you like it.
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La CLAN an Iron Sink.

An iron sink which is badly discol-
ored with rust, and which is covered
with a thick coat Of grease, may be
cleaned with kerosene oil. The sink
is simply rubbed with an abundance
of kerosene. Apply the oil at night,
so that no water need be run into the
sink for several hours. Then in the
morning it should be wiped dry.
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Baked Turnips.

Peel; slice thin and cook Is min
utes in salted water; drain. place in a
butteTed baking dish and pour over
them a cup of good, clear stock, sea-
soned with salt. pepper, nutmeg, and,
if liked. a teaspoonful Of sugar Bake
until tender. basting often. Serve in a
should be slightly thickened, poured
over them.
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VeIvet Srnrre Cake

Beat four eggs and two cupfuls of
sugar well together: add two cupfuls
Of -four, two teaspOonfuIs of baking
powder and lemon faVOring; finish
with two-thirds OF cupful of boiling
water just as il is ready for the oven.
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Shoes in Housework.

If you must do your own housewOrk
see that your shoes are loose and alb
solutely comfortable. Change them
moreover in the afternoon, as nothing
rests the feet more. If your feet get
so tired that you feel you cannot stand
up another moment. and your feet
are swollen. taEe tine To dip them in
cold water and give them a yigor-
Gus rub.
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Dish Drainer Toaster.

A dish drainer, which is wire bask-
ct about IA by eight inches. with hve
short legs, makes a splendid toaster
and holds eight slices of bread II
placed on the top of the stove the
bread will toast in three minutes,
even when not previously dried in the
oven.
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Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding


Remove the ribs and pull firmly and
fasten with skewers; place in a bak-
ing pan, dredge with -four and lightly
with pepper. Pour into this pan some
hot water, bake an hour and a half.
Half an hour before 1t is done sprinkle
with salt, make the pudding and put
under the meat in the dripping pan.
Yorkshire Pudding.-One and one
half cups of flour, two even teaspoons
of baking powder. one small teaspoon
of salt; mix well, sift them together.
add three eggs well beaten, one table.
spoonful of melted butter. one pint OF
sweet milk. Pour the batter into the
pan with the drippings and bake 20
minutes. Cut into squares and serve
around the roast.
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Walnut Candy.

Two cups brown sugar, half cup
rich milk, half pound English Walnuts
chopped fined. Boil the sugar and milk
10 minutes. Add the nuts, boil five
minutes. flavor with vanilla If desired
Beat well, spread in shallow pans and
cut in squares.
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Keen Juice in Pies.

To the housewife who has trouble
with the juice of her pies running
over into the oven, the following sug-
gestion will prove helpful; Always
place the sugar on the bottom crust
before placing the fruit into the pie,
and the trouble will be avoided.
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10 smooth eroken TumbIers,

Emery paper, if tackled upon a
board, is useful for smoothing slightly
broken edges Of thin tumbIers. By
carefully rubbing the glasses back
and forth, a smooth surface is OBJ
tanned, but not If glass is cracked
badly.
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Raw Potato Cakes.

Peel enough potatoes for the number
of persons you desire; crate on a
coarse crater and stir in three 10 FIVE
eggs: then add a little -four Stir well
and fry in bot lard.
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Chinese Mutton.
~H#NS

Dice fne a l.4-, $500 ---.,-0I. Adj
a head of lettuce torn in shreds, a
can Of peas drained, a teaspoonful Of
onion juice, salt and pepper. a table
spoon of butter and a cupful and a
half of broth or water. Simmer
Gently for half an hour, seasoning to
aste. Serve with a border Of hCt
lCiled rice
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Foundation Cake

-Four eggs we'll beaten, one cup but
ter, two cups sugar. one cup milk.
three cups -four, two teaspoons baking
powder. Flavor with whatever you
prefer.