Macdonald Cake. (Mrs. A. A. Lincoln.)

1 cup butter, creamed.

1½ cup sugar.

1 eggs (yolks)

1 teaspoonful lemon or vanilla.

½ cup milk.

½ cup cornstarch.

1½ cup pastry flour.

1 teaspoonful cream of tartar and ½ teaspoonful soda, or

2 level teasp. baking-powder. Whites of the eggs.

Mix in the order given, and bake in two shallow pans in a moderate oven.

Cider Cake

1 cup butter.

2 cups sugar.

3 eggs, beaten separately ¾ cup cider.

4 cups flour.

1 teaspoonful soda, scant.

1 teaspoonful spice.

Mix soda and spice with flour, then mix in the order given, and bake in two shallow pans.

Dominoes

Bake sponge or feather cake in shallow pans; frost, cut in oblong pieces, and mark like dominoes.

Madelines

Bake any rich butter cake mixture quarter of an inch thick. Cut in squares or rounds; ornament with frosting and nuts, or candied fruits.

Gold Cake

½ cup butter.

1 ½ cup fine granulated sugar.

Yolks of 4 eggs.

1 whole egg.

½ cup milk.

½ teaspoonful mace.

¼ teaspoonful soda and

¾ teaspoonful cream of tartar.1

2½ cups flour.

Silver Cake

½ cup butter.

1½ cup sugar.

½ teaspoonful almond.

½ cup milk.

¼ teaspoonful soda and

¾ teaspoonful cream of tartar, or

2 level teasp. baking-powder.

2¼ cups flour.

Whites of 5 eggs.

Mix in the order given, putting soda and cream of tar tar in the flour, and adding milk and flour alternately.

1 Or 2½ level teaspoons baking-powder.

Bake in a moderate oven, until the loaf shrinks from the pan.

Watermelon Cake may be made from this receipt by using red sugar in the gold cake, and adding one cup of raisins, seeded, quartered, and rolled in flour. Put the red cake in the centre of a round pan, and the white around the edge. Or put the red at the bottom, and the white on top. Bake in a large round pan, or two brickloaf pans.

Marble Cake

Color one cupful of the yellow cake dough brown with one tablespoonful of melted chocolate, and mix the white, yellow, and brown in spots, or drop the brown in rings between the layers of white and yellow.

Cornstarch Cake

½ cup butter, creamed.

1½ cup sugar.

½ cup milk.

½ teaspoonful almond.

½ cup cornstarch.

1½ cup pastry flour.

½ teaspoonful soda.

1½ teaspoonful cream of tartar

Whites of 6 eggs.

Mix in the order given, and bake in a moderate oven.

Snow Cake. (Miss Alice Walcott.)

¾ cup butter.

2 cups sugar.

½ cup milk.

2½ cups pastry flour.

½ teaspoonful soda.

1½ teaspoonful cream of tartar.

Whites of 8 eggs.

1 teaspoonful almond extract.

Mix the soda and cream of tartar with the flour. Be sure to use one teaspoonful and a half of cream of tartar, as the extra amount is intended to stiffen the whites of the eggs. Rub the butter to a cream, add the sugar, and beat again; add the milk and flour alternately, a little at a time, and beat well. Lastly, add the beaten whites and the almond. Bake in two small pans in a moderate oven.

Dream Cake

Bake the Snow Cake in three shallow pans. Make the Ornamental Frosting, and flavor one part with lemon, another with vanilla, and the third with rose. Frost each cake, put together, and sprinkle grated fresh cocoanut over the top.