Nut Cakes

Meat from 1 lb. pecans 1 lb. powdered sugar

1/4 cup flour Whites 6 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

Pound nut meat and mix with sugar and flour. Beat whites of eggs until stiff, add first mixture and vanilla. Drop from tip of tablespoon (allowing one spoonful for each cake) on a tin sheet covered with buttered paper. Bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.

Snow Cake

1/4 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup milk 1 2/3 cups flour

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Whites 2 eggs

1/2 teaspoon vanilla or

1/4 teaspoon almond extract

Follow recipe for mixing butter cakes. Bake forty-five minutes in a deep narrow pan.

Lily Cake

1/3 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup milk 1 3/4 eups flour

21/2 teaspoons baking powder Whites 3 eggs 1/3 teaspoon lemon extract 2/3 teaspoon vanilla

Follow recipe for mixing butter cakes.

Corn-Starch Cake

1 cup butter

2 cups sugar 1 cup milk

1 cup corn-starch

2 cups flour

4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Whites 5 eggs

3/4 teaspoon vanilla or

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Follow recipe for mixing butter cakes. This mixture makes two loaves.

Prune Almond Cake

Bake one-half Corn-starch Cake mixture in a dripping-pan. Cut in two crosswise, spread between layers Prune Almond Filling, and cover top with White Mountain Cream.

Prune Almond Filling. To one-half the recipe for White Mountain Cream add eight soft prunes stoned and cut in pieces, and one-fourth cup almonds blanched and cut in pieces.

Marshmallow Cake

1/2 cup butter 1 1/2 cups sugar 1/2 cup milk 2 cups flour

3 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar Whites 5 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla

Follow recipe for mixing butter cakes. Bake in shallow pans, and put Marshmallow Cream between the layers and on the top.

Fig Eclair

1/2 cup butter (scant) 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup milk

1 7/8 cups flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

Whites 4 eggs

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Follow recipe for mixing butter cakes. Bake in shallow pans, put between layers Fig Filling, and sprinkle top with powdered sugar.

Banana Cake

Mix and bake Fig Éclair mixture; put between layers White Mountain Cream covered with thin slices of banana, and frost the top. This should be eaten the day it is made.

Bride's Cake

1/2 cup butter 1 1/2 cups sugar

1/2 cup milk 2 1/2 cups flour

Whites six eggs

3 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar 1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Follow recipe for mixing butter cakes. Bake forty-five to fifty minutes in deep, narrow pans. Cover with white frosting.

Ice Cream Cake

1/2 cup butter 2 cups sugar

1 cup milk 3 cups flour

4 teaspoons baking powder Whites 4 eggs

Vanilla

Follow recipe for mixing butter cakes. Bake in layers, and put between layers and on top Ice Cream Frosting.

Ice Cream Cake (Page 517) with Nut Caramel Frosting.

Page 530.