Pound Cake

1 pound butter 1 pound sugar 1 pound flour

10 eggs

1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg

2 teaspoons vanilla

Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add the yolks of the eggs beaten light; then beat the whites to a stiff froth and add them alternately with the flour; flavor; put in two deep, buttered pans and bake in a moderate oven from forty to fifty minutes.

Orange Cake

1/2 pound butter 1/2 pound sugar 1/2 pound flour 5 eggs

Rind of 1 orange Juice of 2 oranges 1 even teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon hot water

Mix like pound cake, beating the oranges into the sugar and butter and adding the soda dissolved in hot water last. Bake in a slow oven until thoroughly done.

Butter Cake

1 1/2 cups flour 1 cup butter 5 eggs

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla

Beat the butter and flour to a cream; add the yolks, then the beaten whites, and last the sugar, baking powder and vanilla.

Peggy Cake

1/2 cups sugar 1/2 cup butter 3 eggs

1/2 cup milk

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

Little grated nutmeg

Mix like pound cake, adding the baking powder last. Bake in shallow tins or in a Turk's head.

Gold Cake

3/4 cup butter 1 cup sugar Yolks of 2 eggs

2 cups flour 3/4 cup milk

3 teaspoons baking powder

Little grated nutmeg

Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add the eggs, then the sifted flour and baking powder alternately with the milk. Flavor with a little grated nutmeg.

Silver Cake

1 cup sugar 6 ounces butter Whites of 2 eggs

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 cup cream

1 teaspoon vanilla

Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add the stiffly beaten whites of eggs, then the sifted flour and baking powder; last add the cream and flavoring.

Plain Cake

1/4 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk

1 1/2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add the beaten yolks and beat all well; then add the milk alternately with the sifted flour and baking powder; last of all add the whites, beaten to a stiff froth, and the flavoring. Bake in one pan or in small gem pans.

Berry Cake

1/4 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg

1 cup milk

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 pint blueberries, huckleberries, or blackberries

Mix the same as Plain Cake, adding the berries, well washed and drained and dusted with flour.

Shellbark Cake

1/4 pound butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon soda

3/4 cup milk

1 cup shellbark meats 1/4 pound raisins 1/4 pound currants 1/4 pound citron 1 teaspoon vanilla Ten gratings of nutmeg

Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add the beaten eggs, then half the flour alternately with the milk in which the soda has been dissolved; add the nuts, then the fruit, well washed and drained and mixed with some of the flour; add vanilla and nutmeg and the remaining flour. Bake in a moderate oven,