A NEW CAKE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2986, 20 January 1881, Page 4

A NEW CAKE.

In their way "Household Departments" aro very good adjuncts to a newspaper when edited by a woman ; but the male journalist who dabbles with tho heaveninspired mysteries of cooking, runs, says a Californian paper, a frightful risk. Ihe editor of the Weekly Petaluma Peavine started a column of that kind recently, a;:d a few days afterwards a fierce looking female came into the office, carefully concealing some object behind her apron. ' Are you the man that published that new and improved way to make currantcake ?" He said he was. 1 You said to mix washing-soda with the flour, and stir in a little corn meal and sweet oil to give it consistency ?' ' I —l believe so.' 'And to add fifteen eggs and some molasses, and 2oz of gum arabic, and set in a cool place to bake ?' ' I think that was it.' ' Well, take that then!' And the indignant housewife knocked him down with p weapon that felt like a sand club, but which he believed in his heart must have been a half-baked hunk of cake coßtructed on the Peavine pattern.