Harrison Cake

To two cups molasses, add one of brown sugar, one of butter, one of sour cream or milk, one of raisins seeded, one of currants, and half a cup citron; a teaspoon each of clove, cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg, and two (small) saleratus. To mix it, cut the butter in little pieces, and put into a saucepan with the molasses; when the molasses boils up, pour it immediately upon 3 1/2 cups of flour, and add the sugar and half the cream; stir it well; then add the saleratus, the rest of the cream, the spice, and flour enough to make it the consistency of cup cake, and last the fruit. Bake rather slowly. All cake containing molasses is more liable to burn than that which has none.

Fruit Cake

One pound of butter beaten to a cream, one pound fine sugar added by degrees and well beaten. Ten well-beaten eggs added gradually. Beat till light; then add one pound sifted flour, three pounds well-dried currants, three pounds stoned raisins, two ounces citron, grated rind of a lemon, extract of almond or lemon if preferred, one ounce cloves, two ounces cinnamon, one nutmeg.

Sunshine Cake

Yolks of eleven eggs, one cup of butter, one cup of milk; two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, one teaspoon of cream tartar, half teaspoon of soda.

Vanilla Cake

One-half cup butter, one and one-half cups sugar, one and one-half cups flour, one-half cup corn starch, one-half cup sweet milk, three eggs, two teaspoons yeast powder, one teaspoon vanilla; stir the corn starch with the butter and sugar, and then add the milk, flour, etc., the whites of eggs beaten to a froth last. This makes nice gold and silver cake, by using the whites and yolks separately of six eggs. The other proportions remain the same.

Poor Man'S Cake

Two and one-half cups of flour, three eggs, two cups of sugar, one cup of milk, four tablespoons of melted butter, one teaspoon of soda, two of cream tartar.

Ribbon Cake

Five eggs, reserving two whites for icing, one and one-half common-sized teacup sugar, three-fourths cup butter, not pressed down tightly, one-half cup cold water, three teaspoons baking powder sifted into two cups flour, slightly heaped. Divide the batter, which should be thin, as nearly equal as possible, add to one-half the mixture a teaspoon each of allspice and cinnamon, one-half nutmeg, and one cup currants. Bake in four layers, two of each color, and lay alternately, with icing between.

Marble Cake

White part - The whites of four eggs, one cup of powdered white sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, one-half tea-sponful soda, one teaspoonful cream tartar, one and one-half cups flour.

Black part - The yolks of the four eggs, one cup brown sugar, one-half cup molasses, one-half cup sour milk, one-half cup butter, one teaspoonful soda, one and one-half cups flour. Spices to suit the taste. Put first into the pan a layer of white and then a layer of black. Much improved by a thick layer of icing.