Fried Cakes

One coffee cup sugar, two eggs, one cup sour milk, four tablespoonfuls melted butter or lard, one-half nutmeg or teaspoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful soda; mix lightly, roll out and cut in rings or small round cakes, fry in hot lard until a nice brown. Sweet milk and two teaspoonfuls baking powder, make them very nice, especially in summer.

Fritters

One cup sour milk, one egg (well beaten), one tea-spoonful soda, one teaspoonful of cream or other shortening, flour to make a thick, batter, drop a tablespoon-ful in hot lard and cook till done.

Ginger Snaps

Two cups of New Orleans molasses, one-half cup butter, one-half cup lard, one teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a little hot water, two teaspoonfuls ginger, one-half cup of cold water; mix soft and roll thin.

Crisp Ginger Snaps

One pint common molasses, one cup lard, a little salt, three tablespoonfuls vinegar. Heat all together, and after removing from the stove add one even tablesroon-ful soda, and one tablespoonful ginger. When cool mix in enough flour to make it stiff; roll very thin, bake quick.

Sugar Cookies

One cup of butter, two cups of brown sugar, one egg, four large spoonfuls sour milk, one teaspoonful soda. Nutmeg or other spice.

Spice Cake

Five eggs, three and a fourth cups of flour, two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, two-thinls cup of sweet milk. When ready to pour into the pan, take a cup of the batter ami mix with it one-half nutmeg, grated, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, two teaspoonfuls allspice, and stir thoroughly. After pouring a poition of the batter into the pan drop in with a teaspoon some of the spiced batter. Continue this till all is in the pan, and bake in a moderate oven.

Jelly Cake

One cup sugar, two eggs, one cup and one heaping tablespoonful flour, four tablespoonfuls water, one and one-half teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in layers.

Filling

One pint milk, two and a half tablespoonfuls sugar, two tablespoonfuls cornstarch, white of one egg (well beaten). Bring the milk to the boiling point, then add the other ingredients. To be cooled before placing between the layers of cake. Before spreading on cake add vanilla and a little salt.

Ginger Cake

One cup molasses, one-half cup sugar, one-half cup butter or lard, one cup sour milk, one egg, two tea-spoonfuls ginger, two teaspoonfuls soda and a little yeast powder.

Coffee Cake

Five cups of flour, one cup butter, one cup coffee, one cup molasses, one cup sugar, one cup raisins, one teaspoonful soda, tablespoonful of cloves, allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Cream Puffs

Boil one pint of milk with one-half pound of butter; mix three-fourths pound flour with a little cold water, and stir into the boiling mixture. Let it cool and add a little salt and ten eggs. Drop the mixture on tins and bake in a hot oven twenty minutes. When cold, split and fill with the following mixture; four eggs, two cups sugar, one cup of flour, beat well and stir into one quart of milk while boiling.

Cornstarch Cake

Whites of three eggs, one cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of cornstarch, one-half cup milk, one cup Hour, one and a half teaspoonfuls baking powder.

Plain Cake

Three small cups sugar, two thirds cup butter, four cups sifted flour, three eggs, one cup milk, two spoonfuls yeast powder. Flavor to suit the taste.

Angel Cake

The whites of eleven eggs, one tumbler of powdered sugar, one tumbler of flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder, flavor to taste with bitter almond or orange, a pinch of salt. Sift the flour rive times, the fifth time sifting in the baking powder. S oft the sugar three times. Beat the eggs to a stiff* froth. In mixing beat as little as possible. Bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.

Ginger Cake

One cup molasses, one-half cup sugar, one egg, one teaspoonful sola, one cup water, one-half cup of shortening, one tablespoonful of ginger.

Ice Cream

One quart milk, two eggs, one small tablespoon cornstarch, four tablespoons sugar, one .spoonful essence of lemon. Make custard and boil the day before using it.

Mrs. F's. Ice Cream

Custard, one-half box gelatine, pint milk, three eggs well beaten, one cup sugar, just let it come to a boil. Then whip part of the two quarts of pure cream, add two cups sugar, whites four eggs well beaten, the custard, and flavor to taste. Very tine indeed.

Rock Cream

Wash one cup of the best rice, and boil slowly until quite soft, in milk; add white sugar to taste, and pile it on a dish. Scatter jelly or thick preserves over it. Beat the whiter of five eggs to a stiff froth; add sugar and flavoring. When well beaten add a spoonful of rich cream and drop it on the rice imitating the form of a rock of snow.