"Sweet cakes and short cakes, ginger cakes and honey cakes, and the whole family of cakes." - Irving.

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Good Cake For Common Use

Cake

3/4 cup butter 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup milk

3 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

Whites 6 eggs

Filling For Cake

1 scant cup sweet milk 1/2 teacup granulated sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch

1 egg

1 cup chopped hickory nuts

Mix milk, sugar, flour and egg and cook in double boiler until thick. When cold stir in nuts and spread between layers of cake.

Eggless, Butterless And Milkless Cake

Put in a saucepan

1 cup brown sugar

2 cups raisins

1 cup cold water 1 tablespoon lard

1 pinch salt

1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/3 teaspoon cloves

Boil all together 3 minutes; when cold, add 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in tablespoon boiling water, then add 2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 3/4 cup nuts. The batter is very stiff. Bake in a loaf 40 minutes. - A. B. V.

Good Yellow Cake

3/4 cup butter 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup milk

3 1/4 cups flour

4 eggs

2 teaspoons baking powder

Cream butter and sugar, add yolks of eggs, then milk and flour, having baking powder sifted into the last cup flour; add whites last, beaten very stiff. Bake in layer pans.

Sponge Cake

1/2 lb. granulated sugar 1/4 lb. flour, sifted

5 eggs

Juice and rind 1/2 lemon

Beat half the sugar with the yolks of the eggs; beat whites very stiff and add remaining sugar. Beat the mixtures well together, add lemon, then work in the flour slowly stirring the dough very lightly. Bake in a shallow tin from 20 to 30 minutes in a moderate oven. A small handful of granulated sugar sprinkled over the top of the cake just before it goes into the oven is an improvement.

- Mrs. W. E. Church

Mocha Cake

3/4 cup butter, 2 cups sugar cream together 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup water 3 cups flour

3 eggs

3 teaspoons baking powder in last cup flour 1 teaspoon vanilla

Make the day before wanted. Bake in sheet.

Frosting

4 oz. butter (4 tablespoons of 10 oz. powdered sugar (20 butter well rounded) tablespoons)

Cream butter and sugar together; add 2 tablespoons cold water and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cut cake in 1 inch squares. Have prepared almonds blanched, browned and chopped rather fine. Roll squares of cake in frosting and then in chopped nuts.

Cocoa Cake

1 cup sugar 1/2 cup shortening 1/2 cup cocoa 1 1/4 cups flour

3 eggs

1/2 cup water

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

3 teaspoons baking powder

Cream butter and sugar; add the cocoa, the yolks (beaten), water, cinnamon, beaten whites and lastly flour and baking powder sifted together. Mix thoroughly.

- Mrs. A. B. Lord

Orange Cake

2 cups flour 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup water Yolks 5 eggs Whites 2 eggs

Juice and rind (grated) 1 orange 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1/2 teaspoon soda