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together, allowing space for the pudding 
to swell at least one-half its original bulk. 
Boil for three hours in plenty of water. 
Turn out on a big round platter and gar¬ 
nish with holly or laurel. 
ROSAMOND LAMPMAN. 
Naming the Patchwork Quilt 
The quilt shown in Tiie R. N.-Y. of 
November 12 was called “Friendship.” the 
long white piece in center being used for 
the writing of a name when friends each 
contributed a block to one starting house¬ 
keeping or moving to a distant neighbor¬ 
hood. L. L. P. 
The quilt pictured on page 1335, No¬ 
vember 12. is the “Album.” It was quite 
a fad in the early sixties to send a pat¬ 
tern with the white part, cut out to our 
girl friends, and ask them to piece a 
block with the colored pieces like one of 
their dresses. Then we would write the 
girl's name with indelible ink on the 
white center part, making a constant re¬ 
minder of our "irl friends. MRS. a. m. h. 
I have a quilt like that on page 1335. 
belonging to my mother, that she pieced 
when she was a girl. She would have 
been SO years old now. She did not have 
the date of the year when she made it, 
but she called it. the “Album Quilt.” I 
made one in 1907, and I put 1907 on one 
Velvet Lunch Cake 
In answer to M. B.'s inquiry for a 
recipe for velvet cake, I append the fol¬ 
lowing, which goes by the name of velvet 
lunch cake in my collection of recipes: 
One cup sugar, one-half cup shortening, 
one cup sour milk, one egg, one tablespoon 
molasses, one-fourth teaspoon each cloves, 
cinnamon and nutmeg, one teaspoon soda, 
salt, two cups flour. Beat sugar and 
shortening, add egg yolk, spices and 
molasses; milk and flour alternately, 
small portion at a time, stirring well. 
Dissolve soda in small quantity of hot 
water and add then, last of all, egg white 
beaten stiff and folded in. Bake in loaf or 
two layers. Put together with one cup 
confectioner’s sugar, one tablespoon but¬ 
ter and a little strong coffee. Same recipe- 
in loaf is excellent with raisins—half a 
cup. Some cooks dislike the use of soda 
in cakes, claiming the cake is never light, 
but if the directions given are followed 
and an oven of moderate heat is used I 
am sure a velvet cake, in texture, will be 
the result of this economical formula. 
Just at the season when eggs are high 
this recipe is frequently used in my bak- 
ing: 
Eggless Raisin Cake.—One cup sugar, 
one-half clip shortening, one cup sweet 
milk, one cup raisins, two cups flour, one- 
half teaspoon each cloves, cinnamon, one- 
half teaspoon lemon extract and a grating 
of nutmeg; two teaspoons baking pow¬ 
der. Bake in moderate oven in two layers 
Still Another Nameless Quill 
of the blocks. My friends each gave me 
a block, and each wrote her name on the 
white piece in the middle. MRS. L. J. D. 
The quilt pictured on page 1335 is 
called the Roman Cross. I have one made 
bv a ladies’ aid society of Mongaup 
Valley, N.. Y., Methodist Church. They 
told me that was what it was called. 
MRS. W. P. 
You ask the name of the quilt illus¬ 
trated on page 1335. Some call them 
Album quilts, some Autograph, others 
Friendship quilts. M.v mother had one; 
most of the blocks were pieced by friends 
and relatives, who wrote their names in 
the center in indelible ink. Some pieced 
the blocks themselves and had their 
friends write their names. When I was 
a little girl seven years old I was quite 
ill. My mother put one of these quilts on 
the bed and I got considerable amusement 
out of it. Each block was pieced of dif¬ 
ferent calico, and such pretty ones, that 
we do not see nowadays. The center was 
of white bleached muslin, the better to 
write upon. I also studied the names on 
the blocks. All the blocks were different 
but the four corners; they look best to be 
alike. The ladies of our church make 
what they call autograph quilts; each 
member pieces one or more blocks, and 
people pay 10 cents, sometimes 5 cents, 
to have their name put on, and then the 
quilt is sold at their annual church fair, 
realizing quite a little sum from it. 
M. B. DAKE. 
You asked for a name for the quilt pic¬ 
tured on page 1335. I knew one that 
was called “Grandmother's Album.” You 
have some very beautiful pictures of 
quilts, but I think if you should ask cer¬ 
tain Civil War veterans they would 
choose “Grandmother’s Album.” When 
everyone was “doing his bit” to help in 
the war. the Christian Commission sent 
out a call for beds and bedding for the 
hospitals. The grandmothers in our town¬ 
ship made a “quilting bee.” Each one 
brought pieces of cloth left from her 
clothes, pieced a block and wrote her name 
in the white center. They helped to sew 
the blocks together, made the lining, put 
the quilt in the frames, and each quilted 
her name in her block. Quilted and 
bound, the quilt was sent to the Christian 
Commission. I have understood that read¬ 
ing the names helped to pass away many 
weary hours. No one but a grandmother 
was allowed to touch the quilt. 
MRS. J. II. B. 
II. N.-Y.—We think Mrs. W. P. is 
correct in the name of the original de¬ 
sign. The Roman Cross, Irish Chain, or 
any other pattern having a white block 
may be made into a Friendship or Al¬ 
bum quilt by putting names on a white 
block, and then joining as in the original 
pattern. 
and use one cup confectioner’s sugar 
flavored with orange, and put together 
with melted butter. No egg. G. .J. 
Black Chocolate Cake; Mocha Icing 
Would you give a recipe for chocolate 
cake, published, as near as I can remem¬ 
ber, about three or four years ago? It 
was the best recipe we ever had for choco¬ 
late cake, and now we have lost it. It 
called for two eggs, which were cooked 
with the chocolate as a sort of custard 
and added to the creamed butter and 
sugar. It had moc-ha icing. e. g. r. 
Put one whole square of chocolate in a 
double boiler, let it melt, then add one- 
half cup of sweet milk and the yolks of 
two eggs. Let-all thicken slowly, stirring 
occasionally with egg beater. Cream tnree 
tablespoon fills of butter with one cupful 
of sugar, stir in one-half cupful of milk, 
and iy 2 cup of flour, in which one tea¬ 
spoon of soda has been sifted. Stir the 
melted chocolate, milk and eggs into this, 
and flavor with vanilla. Use whites of 
eggs for icing, if white icing is desired. 
The mocha icing calls for one cup con¬ 
fectioner’s sugar, one-fourth cup,butter, 
two tablespoons cocoa, two tablespoons 
strong cold coffee. Cream the butter and 
sugar together, add the dry cocoa, then 
stir in the coffee. Many recipes call for 
three tablespoons of coffee, but we think 
this makes it too thin. 
English Gingerette 
A little over a year ago you printed a 
recipe for English gingerette, which I 
consider a very fine thing. It may be of 
interest to you to know that about a table¬ 
spoonful of it . in hot water promptly 
broke a severe chill, and probably saved 
my husband from developing a cold in 
the head, or worse. MRS. T. L. 
This is an old and well-tested recipe. 
It calls for essence of lemon. 1 oz.; es¬ 
sence of cayenne, 2 oz.: essence of gin¬ 
ger. 2 oz.; burnt sugar. 2 oz.; citric acid, 
2 oz. Dissolve 3 lbs. of granulated sugar 
in three pints of boiling water, and when 
cold add the other ingredients, shake well 
and bottle. Use about a tablespoonful 
and a half in a glass of water. It is 
good for a hot or cold drink. 
Buttermilk Cheese; Removing Rust 
I noticed someone in The R. N.-Y". said 
it was not necessary to put butter in pot 
cheese made with buttermilk. Don’t you 
believe it. The method of making was 
all right, but use a good lump of butter. 
We prefer buttermilk cheese to any other. 
Also if the one who wanted to take 
iron rust from cotton goods will put salt 
and lemon juice on stain and then hold 
it over hot steam, I think she will be 
pleased with results. mrs. w. g. c. 
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