Marble Cake

Light Part

  • 1 1/2 cupfuls white sugar
  • 1/2 cupful butter
  • 3/4 cupful sweet milk
  • 1 teaspoonful cream-tartar
  • 1/2 teaspoonful soda
  • whites of 4 eggs
  • 2 1/2 cupfuls of flour sifted with the rising
  • 1 teaspoonful flavoring, lemon or vanilla

Dark Part

  • 1 cupful brown sugar
  • 1/2 cupful molasses
  • 1/2 cupful butter
  • 1/2 cupful sour milk
  • 2 1/2 cupfuls flour sifted with 1/4 teaspoonful soda and 3/4 teaspoonful cream-tartar
  • Yolks of 4 eggs
  • 1 teaspoonful cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoonful each cloves, allspice, nutmeg

Beat thoroughly. Put in the pan a layer of the dark batter, then large spoonfuls of the white light until all the batter is used. Bake one hour.