English Walnut Cake, page 167

One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of milk, 2 cups of flour, 2 eggs, 1 heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 large cup of stoned raisins, 1 large cup of chopped walnuts. Flour the nuts and raisins before putting them in the cake. This is very good and not expensive.

Ribbon Cake, page 171

Take 1 1/4 cups of sugar, 1/2 cup of butter, 1/2 a cup of sweet milk, 3 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, beat thoroughly, divide into three parts; to one third, add 1 table-spoonful of molasses, 1 teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Bake in three layers, and put the dark between the 2 white layers, placing sufficient icing or jelly between. Ice the top.

Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.