In one full cup of flour mix one cup sugar. Beat up he yolks of four eggs; add two tablespoonfuls cold water and a little vanilla; add this to flour and sugar and last add whites of four eggs, well beaten. Beat all together and bake in a slow oven one-half hour.

Sponge Cake

Take four eggs, one cup sugar, one cup flour, one tea-poonful baking powder and a pinch of salt. Beat eggs separately; add sugar, flour, baking powder and salt to yolks of eggs and lastly add whites. Spread in long pans. Bake in quick oven and spread with jelly and roll while hot.

Roll Jelly Cake

Take one cup molasses, one-half cup boiling water, one-ourth cup butter, two eggs, one teaspoonful soda, one easpoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful cloves and two ups flour. Mix cinnamon and cloves in flour before adding to other ingredients.

Molasses Cake

Two cups molasses, one-fourth cup butter, two tea-poonfuls soda, one cup sour milk and two well-beaten eggs and mix together thoroughly. Take two tablespoon-uls ginger, one-half teaspoonful cinnamon and a little nutmeg, and allspice and mix with one cup flour; add one-half teaspoonful salt; add flour and spices to other ingredients and add enough more flour to make a rather tiff batter. Bake in a moderate oven at least forty minutes.

Soft Gingerbread

One-half cup sugar, one-fourth cup butter, two eggs, one teaspoonful baking powder and one cupful flour; cream butter and sugar, mix baking powder with flour and add to butter and sugar, and lastly add well-beaten eggs. Bake in buttered tin for one-half hour.

Madeira Cake

One pound butter, two cupfuls sugar, ten eggs and two tablespoonfuls rose water; add flour enough to make batter. Beat the sugar and butter together to a cream; add rose water and about one-fourth of the flour you intend to use. Beat eggs until very light, and gradually stir in the butter and sugar; then add flour, a small quantity at a time, beating constantly. Put in well-buttered pan and bake in moderate oven about two hours or longer.

Pound Cake

Cream one-half pound butter with one cup sugar; add two well-beaten eggs, a teacupful milk; mix together one heaping teaspoonful baking powder, one and one-half teaspoonfuls mixed spices and one-half pound Sultana raisins with one pound of flour; add gradually to butter, sugar, etc. Beat thoroughly. Put in buttered tins and bake in moderate oven one hour.

Spice Cake

One heaping cupful sugar, one-half cupful milk, two eggs, one pint flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder and one teaspoonful lemon or vanilla extract. Cream together butter and sugar; add milk and well-beaten eggs; add baking powder to flour, add extract, stir well and bake in rather hot oven. This cake can be depended upon, and is better if more eggs are used.

Layer Cake

Cream one-half pound butter with one cupful sugar; add three well-beaten eggs, one teacupful milk; take four cupfuls flour, add two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one teaspoonful mixed spices and either two ounces of caraway seeds or one cupful Sultana raisins dredged in flour; add this to butter, sugar and milk; stir well, and bake in buttered tin for one hour.