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Ribbon Cake. —I. Sweet milk, 1/2 cup; butter, 1/2 cup; 3 eggs, flour, 3 cups; cream of tartar, 1 teaspoonful; soda, 1/2 tea-spoonful. Directions— Dissolve the soda in the milk: mix the cream of tartar in the flour; beat the eggs, sugar and butter well together; then the milk and flour.
II. Take of the above mixture, 1 cup; molasses, 1 tea-spoonful; cinnamon, cloves, allspice and nutmeg, each 1/2 tea-spoonful: citron, almonds or walnut meats, each 1/4 lb.; raisins and English currants, each 1/2 cup. Directions —Chop the citron, and almond or walnut meats (whichever you prefer to use), dredge the raisins and currants with flour, and mix with the molasses and spices into the cup of batter taken from the first. Use shallow tins for baking, putting in a strip of the white batter lengthwise of the tin; then a strip of the dark beside it, and so cover the tins; thus you have a "marbled cake, " which has ribbon-like strips.
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