This section is from the book "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book", by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Also available from Amazon: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar Yolks 3 eggs 1/2 cup milk 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 cups flour
2 3/4 teaspoons baking powder Whites 2 eggs
3/4 cup walnut meat, broken in pieces
Mix ingredients in order given. Bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Cover with White Mountain Cream, crease in squares, and put one-half walnut on each square.
1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar Yolks 2 eggs 1/2 cup milk
1 3/4 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon Whites 2 eggs
Mix ingredients in order given. Bake in shallow tins and spread between and on top Caramel Frosting.
2/3 cup butter 2 cups sugar 4 eggs
1 cup milk
3 1/4 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon mace
Put butter and sugar in a bowl, and stir until well mixed; add eggs well beaten, then milk, and flour mixed and sifted with baking powder and mace. Bake in individual tins. Cover with Chocolate Frosting.
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 1/4 cups flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
Mix ingredients in the order given, and bake in individual buttered cake tins.
1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup sugar 1/3 cup milk
2 eggs
1 1/3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup Jordan almonds, blanched and cut in pieces
Mix ingredients in order given, and bake in individual cake pans.
1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/3 cup Porto Rico molasses
1 egg, well beaten 7/8 cup bread flour 1 cup pecan meat, cut in pieces
Mix ingredients in order given. Bake in small shallow fancy cake tins, garnishing top of each cake with one-half pecan.
1/3 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup breakfast cocoa
Yolks 3 eggs
1/2 cup cold water
1 1/4 cups bread flour
3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup candied cherries
1/3 cup raisins, seeded and cut in pieces 1 1/2 tablespoons brandy 1/3 cup walnut meats, cut in pieces Whites 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla
Cover fruit with brandy and let stand several hours. Mix ingredients in order given, and bake in deep cake pan fifty minutes. Cover with White Mountain Cream, and as soon as frosting is set, spread as thinly as possible with melted chocolate.
1/2 cup butter 2 cups sugar Yolks 4 eggs 1 cup milk
3 1/2 cups flour
5 teaspoons baking powder
Whites 4 eggs
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon mace 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 1/3 cup raisins, seeded and cut in pieces 1/3 cup figs, finely chopped 1 tablespoon molasses
Mix first seven ingredients in order given. Bake two-thirds of the mixture in two layer-cake pans. To the remainder add spices, fruit, and molasses, and bake in a layer-cake pan. Put layers together with jelly (apple usually being preferred, as it has less flavor), having the dark layer in the centre.
 
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