Sponge Cake

Mrs. C. A. Gunn.

6 eggs, beaten separately, 1 1/2 cups sugar, 1 1/2 cups flour (after sifting).

1/3 teaspoon cream of tartar, pinch of salt, 1 lemon or orange (juice and rind for flavoring).

Sponge Cake

Mrs. C. Sullivan.

3 eggs.

1 tablespoon water.

1 teaspoon baking powder.

1 cup sugar, 1 cup flour.

Beat eggs very light, add sugar and beat. Add water, and flour with baking powder sifted into it.

Sponge Cake

Mrs. N. E. Thompson.

3 eggs.

1 cup sugar.

1 teaspoon butter.

1 cup flour, 1/2 cup hot milk.

2 teaspoons baking powder.

Beat the eggs five minutes by the clock, add sugar one tablespoon at a time and continue beating. Add the hot milk with the butter melted in it. Sift flour three times; add baking powder at last sifting and use any flavor desired.

This batter may seem too thin, but if receipe is followed strictly, a delicious cake will be the result.

Velvet Sponge Cake

Mrs. Peterson.

1 1/4 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup boiling water.

4 eggs ,1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 lemon.

Beat yolks of eggs, add sugar, and beat fifteen minutes. Flavor with vanilla and the juice and grated rind of half a lemon, pinch of salt. Add two beaten whites, flour and baking powder just before the boiling water and flavoring. Bake in pan one foot square. Cover with boiled icing, place half nuts on top, and cut in squares.

Plain Cake

Mrs. C. Sullivan.

3 cups flour.

2 cups sugar.

3 eggs.

1/2 cup butter 1 cup milk 3 teaspoons baking powder.

Cream butter and eggs. Add the well beaten yolks and milk. Sift flour three times, sifting baking powder the last time, and add. Lastly, fold in the well beaten whites.

Plain Cake

3 eggs.

1 cup sugar.

3 teaspoons baking powder.

1 tablespoon butter.

1/2 cup cream.

1/2 cup water, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 3 cups sifted flour.

Cream butter and sugar. Beat eggs separately. Add the yolks, then milk and flour, baking powder sifted in flour, and whites of eggs. Bake in one pan.

Black Angel Cake

Mrs. C. H. Smith.

I

1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup milk.

2 cups flour.

3 eggs.

2 scant teaspoons soda.

II

1/2 cup milk, 1/2 cup sugar.

1 cup grated chocolate, 1 teaspoon vanilla.

While this is warm, stir in first mixture.

Apple Sauce Cake

Mrs. C. A. Gunn.

1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter or other shortening, 1 cup cold apple sauce, 1 cup chopped raisins.

1 teaspoon soda.

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg.

2 cups flour.

Brown Stone Front

Mrs. G. E. Seybolt.

Part I

1 egg yolk, 3/4 cup milk ,4 squares chocolate (unsweetened).

1 cup sugar.

1 teaspoon vanilla.

Grate chocolate, mix with milk and yolk of one egg and sugar, boil until thick. When cool add vanilla.

Part II

1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter.

2 cubs flour.

3 eggs, 1/2 cup milk, 1 teaspoon soda.

Cream butter and sugar, add the egg yolks well beaten, and milk. Then add flour and soda. Mix in Part I, and, lastly, fold in well beaten white. Bake in layers and put together with boiled icing.

Burnt Leather Cake

Mrs. O. M. Shuman.

1 1/2 cup sugar.

1/2 cup butter.

2 1/2 cups flour.

1 teaspoon vanilla.

3 eggs.

1 cup water.

2 teaspoons baking powder.

Burn syrup. One-half cup sugar stirred in a pan until it burns. Add one half cup boiling water and boil until thick syrup.

Cream butter and sugar, add the yolks of eggs well beaten, water and two cups of flour, sifted three times. Beat for five minutes, then add three teaspoons of burnt syrup, baking powder stirred into one half cup of flower, whites of eggs well beaten.

Icing

1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup water.

white 1 egg.

Boil sugar and water until it balls in water; pour over the stiffly beaten white of egg, and color with burnt syrup.

Cocoanut Cake

5 eggs.

3 cups sugar.

1 teaspoon baking powder.

1 cup grated cocoanut.

1/2 cup boiling water, 2 cups flour, 1 orange.

Beat together until thick and light colored, the yolks of five eggs, whites of three, and two cups of sugar. Add the grated rind and juice of orange; then, in succession, boiling water and stiffly beaten whites of three eggs, flour mixed with baking powder, and cocoanut. Make a boiled icing of two whites of eggs, a heaping cup sugar, half cup water and juice of one orange.

Bake in sheet about an inch thick, in moderate oven. When cool, spread with jelly and cover with icing.

Coffee Cake

Mrs. C. A, Gunn.

butter, melted, size of an egg, 3/4 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup milk.

2 cups flour (before sifting).

3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt.

Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and bake twenty minutes.

Coffee Cake - Mrs. Peterson

1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup molasses.

1 cup strong cold coffee.

2 pounds raisins.

1 tablespoon cinnamon, 1 cup walnuts.

1/2 cup butter, 4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda.

1/4 pound citron.

1 teaspoon cloves.

2 eggs.

Cream butter and sugar. Add coffee and molasses, then eggs well beaten. Next fruit, spices and nuts, and flour. Bake in one pan.