The amount of heat required for baking cake varies according to the composition of the cake. Knowledge of the exact degree of heat required can be gained only by experience. A batter which contains butter needs more heat than one in which there is no butter. This fact must be considered in the heating of the radiators. A little practice is all that is necessary. Only a few recipes for cake are given, as all one's own favorite kinds may be baked in the Caloric. Ordinary cake pans should be used and slipped into the wire rack when the cake is ready for the oven.

Angel Cake

Whites of eleven eggs; one and three-fourths cupfuls granulated sugar; one cupful of flour; one teaspoon-ful of cream of tartar and a pinch of salt. Sift the flour four or five times before measuring. Sift the sugar also. Beat the whites of the eggs about half, add the cream of tartar and the salt and beat until very stiff. Stir in the sugar and the flour very lightly and flavor to taste. Bake in a tube pan in the Caloric rack forty-five to fifty-five minutes, using two moderately hot radiators.

Brown Sugar Layer Cake

Two cupfuls of dark brown sugar; one-half cupful of butter; one-half cupful of sour milk; two eggs (whites and yolks beaten separately); two and one-half cupfuls of flour; one-eighth cake of cooking chocolate dissolved in one-half cupful of boiling water; one level tea-spoonful of soda and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Bake thirty minutes in the Caloric, using two radiators.

Filling

Two and one-half cupfuls of brown sugar; one-half cupful of cream or milk; butter the size of an egg. Boil until it makes a soft ball in water and add one cupful of chopped nuts and a teaspoonful of vanilla. Stir until it begins to thicken and spread between the layers and on top of the cake.

Cocoanut Loaf Cake

One-half cupful of butter; one cupful of sugar; one and one-half cupfuls of flour; two teaspoon-fuls of baking powder; two eggs; one cupful of grated cocoa-nut and a pinch of salt. Cream the butter and sugar together, add the yolks of the eggs, then the flour, salt and baking powder sifted together, and lastly fold in the whites of the eggs. Bake in a tube pan in the Caloric basket forty minutes, using two radiators.

Devil's Food

Cook until thick, one egg, one-fourth cupful of grated chocolate and one-half cupful of milk. When the mixture is cool add one cupful of sugar, one cupful of milk, one-third cupful of butter, melted, one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of vanilla and one and one-third cupfuls of flour. Bake in the Caloric thirty minutes, using two radiators.

Eggless Cake

Cream one scant cupful of sugar and one-fourth cupful of butter. Add three-fourths of a cupful of milk, one and one-half cupfuls of flour sifted with one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Add the flour and milk alternately. Pour into a greased pan and bake in the Caloric rack thirty-five minutes, using two radiators.