Lady-Cake (No. 2.)+

1 lb. sugar.

3/4 lb. sifted flour.

6 oz. butter.

The whipped whites of ten eggs.

Flavor with bitter almond, and bake in square, not very deep tins. Flavor the frosting with vanilla. The combination is very pleasant.

Sister Mag's Cake+

2 1/2 cups powdered sugar. 3/4 cup of butter.

1 " sweet milk.

3 cups flour. •

4 eggs. 1 lemon, juice and rind.

1 small teaspoonful soda.

Bake in a square or oblong tin, and frost with whites of two eggs beaten stiff with powdered sugar.

Dover Cake

1 lb. flour. 1 " white sugar.

1/2 " butter, rubbed with the sugar to a very light cream. 6 eggs.

1 cup sweet milk.

1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in vinegar. 1 " powdered cinnamon.

1 tablespoonful rose-water.

Flavor the frosting with lemon-juice.

Chocolate Cake+

2 cups of sugar. 1 cup butter.

The yolks of five eggs and whites of two. 1 cup of milk. 3 1/2 cups flour. i teaspoonful soda. 1 cream-tartar, sifted into the flour.

Bake in jelly-cake tins.

Mixture for filling.

Whites of three eggs.

1 1/2 cup sugar.

3 tablespoonfuls grated chocolate.

1 teaspoonful vanilla.

Beat well together, spread between the layers and on top of cake.

Caramel Cake+

3 cups sugar. 1 1/2 " butter. 1 cup milk.

4 1/2 cups prepared flour. 5 eggs.

Caramel For Filling

1 1/2 cup brown sugar. 1/2 cup milk. 1 " molasses. 1 teaspoonful butter.

1 tablespoonful flour.

Boil this mixture five minutes, add half a cake Baker's chocolate (grated), boil until it is the consistency of rich custard. Add a pinch of soda, stir well, and remove from fire.

When cold, flavor with a large teaspoonful vanilla, and spread between the layers of cake, which should be baked as for jelly-cake. Cover the top with the same, and set in an open, sunny window to dry.

The above quantity will make two large cakes.

Marble Cake

Light

1 cup white sugar. 1/2 " butter.

1/2 " milk.

Whites of three eggs.

2 cups prepared flour.

Dark

1/2 cup brown sugar. 1/4 " butter. 1/2 " molasses. 1/4 " milk. 1/2 " nutmeg.

1 teaspoonful cinnamon. 1/2 " allspice.

1/2 " soda.

2 cups flour. Yolks of three eggs.

Butter your mould, and put in the dark and light batter in alternate tablespoonfuls.

Marbled Cake+

1 cup butter.

2 cups powdered sugar.

3 " flour.

4 eggs:

1 cup sweet milk.

1/2 teaspoonful soda.

When the cake is mixed take out about a teacupful of the batter, and stir into this a great spoonful of grated chocolate, wet with a scant tablespoonful of milk. Fill your mould about an inch deep with the yellow batter, and drop upon this, in two or three places, a spoonful of the dark mixture. Give to the brown spots a slight stir with the tip of your spoon, spreading it in broken circles upon the lighter surface. Pour in more yellow batter, then drop in the brown in the same manner as before, proceeding in this order until all is used up. When cut, the cake will be found to be handsomely variegated.

Or, You may color the reserved cupful of batter with enough prepared cochineal to give it a fine pink tint, and mix as you do the brown.