Devil's Food Cake

Miss Bashford

4 ounces of chocolate,

1/2 pint of milk,

1/2 cup of butter, 1 1/2 cups of sugar,

4 eggs,

3 cups of flour,

2 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder.

Put chocolate in milk and cook in double-boiler till smooth and thick (about 5 minutes), and stand aside to cool. Beat the butter to a cream, and add gradually the sugar and yolks of eggs; then the cold chocolate mixture, and add the flour, which has been sifted with the baking-powder. Add the well-beaten whites of eggs and flavor with vanilla. Bake in layers and put together with soft icing, to which add chopped figs or nuts.

Excellent Marble Cake

White part:

Whites of 7 eggs,

3 teacups sugar,

1 teacup of butter,

4 teacups flour,

1 teacup sour cream,

1/2 teaspoon soda in cream,

1 teaspoon of cream of tartar in flour.

Cream sugar and butter. Add cream; then flour and eggs alternately. Flavor to taste and bake in layers.

Dark Part

Yolks of 7 eggs,

2 teacups of brown sugar,

1 teacup of molasses,

1 teacup butter,

5 teacups flour,

1 teacup of sour cream,

1 teaspoon soda in cream,

Spices to taste.

Bake in layers, and stack alternate layers of dark and white together with white icing, flavored with lemon.

Kentucky Cake

Mrs. Joseph H. Holt

12 eggs (whites)

1 pound of flour,

1 pound of sugar,

3/4 pound of butter,

1 pound of raisins,

1 heaping teaspoon of baking-powder,

1 wineglass of whisky with a little nutmeg grated into it.

Wash butter and then cream it very light with sugar. Beat whites to stiff froth. Add alternately with the flour, reserving 1 small cup of flour to mix with baking-powder. Next, put in whisky and raisins, and lastly, sift in the cup of flour and baking-powder.

Bake 2 hours in slow oven.

Mountain Cake

V. C. G

1/2 teacup of butter,

1/2 teacup of cornstarch,

1/2 teacup of sweet milk,

11/2 teacups of sugar,

1 1/2 teacups of flour,

1 teaspoon of cream of tartar,

1/2 teaspoon of soda,

1 teaspoon of vanilla,

Whites of 5 eggs.

Bake in jelly pans and make 5 layers.

Frosting For Same

15 tablespoons of pulverized sugar,

1 grated cocoanut, Whites of 5 eggs.

Beat the whites of eggs nearly stiff before adding the sugar. Spread on each layer, and sprinkle cocoanut over and on top and sides.

Mrs. Henry Clay's Drop Cakes

4 eggs,

6 ounces of butter, 8 ounces of sugar, 8 ounces of flour.

Old Virginia Christmas Cake

12 eggs, 1 pound flour, 1 pound sugar, 1 pound butter, 1 nutmeg,

1 teaspoon each of mace and cinnamon, 3 pounds of raisins, 3 pounds currants, 1/2 pound citron,

1 pound each of cream nuts and almonds, 1/2 pint of brandy,

1/2 teaspoon soda in small cup of vinegar. Put in last.

Bake 3 or 4 hours. Cover with icing made of eggs and sugar. Flavor with acid.