Fruit Cake

Cream one cupful of sugar with one-half cupful of butter. Add the yolks of six eggs, a little grated lemon rind, four ounces each of rasins and currants, one pound of flour and a scant one-half pint of milk. Fold in the beaten whites of six eggs, and, lastly, add two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Bake in the Caloric one hour, using two radiators.

Gold Cake

Yolks of eight eggs; one scant cupful of granulated sugar; one-half cupful of butter; one-half cupful of milk; one and one-half cupfuls of flour and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Cream the butter and sugar thoroughly, add the eggs well beaten, and stir thoroughly. Add the milk and flour and beat hard. Bake in a tube pan in the Caloric rack, using two radiators

Hot Water Sponge Cake

One and one-half cupfuls of powdered sugar or one and one-fourth cupfuls of granulated sugar; four eggs; on and one-half cupfuls of sifted flour; two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; four tablespoonfuls of boiling water and a pinch of salt. Cream the egg yolks and the sugar thoroughly, add the beaten whites, sift in the flour and, after beating thoroughly, add the boiling water. Bake in a tube pan in the Caloric rack twenty-five minutes, using two radiators.

Marble Cake

For the light part, use one cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, one cupful of milk, one and one-fourth cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder, one teaspoonful of lemon extract and the whites of four eggs. For the dark part, use one cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, one-half cupful of syrup, one-half cupful of jelly, the yolks of four eggs, one-half cupful of sour milk, one teaspoon-ful of soda, two cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon and one-half cupful each of currants and raisins. This will make two cakes. Bake forty minutes in the Caloric, using two radiators.

Molasses Cake

One cupful of molasses; one-half cupful of sugar; one-half cupful of butter; two cupfuls of flour; one egg; one teaspoonful of soda; salt and spice to taste. Lastly, add one cupful of boiling water. Bake in the Caloric forty minutes, using two radiators.

Raisin Cake

One egg; one tablespoonful of butter; one-half cupful of milk; two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; one cupful of seeded raisins; two and one-half cupfuls of flour. Flavor with vanilla. Dredge the raisins with a little flour. Bake one hour in the Caloric, using two radiators.

Sour Milk Cake

Two eggs, beaten separately; one cupful of sugar; one cupful of sour cream; one teaspoonful of soda; one and one-half cupfuls of flour; one teaspoonful of baking powder. Flavor with vanilla. Bake in the Caloric forty-five minutes, using two radiators.

Spice Cake

One cupful of brown sugar; one-half cupful of butter; one-half cupful of sour milk; two even teaspoon-of soda; three eggs, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg; one cupful of nut meats; one cupful of raisins; two cupfuls of flour. Beat well. Bake in the Caloric forty minutes, using two radiators.

Sponge Cake

Three eggs, well beaten; one cupful of sugar; one cupful of flour; one teaspoonful of baking powder; one-half cupful of hot milk. Mix thoroughly and bake in the Caloric twenty-five minutes, using two radiators.

Sunshine Cake

One and one-half cupfuls of sifted flour; one cupful of sugar; one teaspoonful of cream of tartar; whites of ten eggs; yolks of six eggs. Beat the whites until they are stiff and cream in half the sugar. Beat the yolks very light and add the remainder of the sugar. Flavor with grated orange peel. Bake in an angel food tin in the Caloric rack one hour, using two radiators.

Washington Cake

One pound of butter; one pound of brown sugar; one pound of flour; one pound of raisins; one-half pound of citron; a little nutmeg; four eggs; one cupful of milk; two wineglassfuls of brandy; two even teaspoonfuls of soda; one cupful of nut meats. Bake in a tube pan one hour, using two radiators. This makes two cakes which will keep for a long time.