Eggless Loaf Cake

3 cups flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

2 cups milk

2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter.

lemon or vanilla extract

Cream sugar and butter. Sift together four times flour and baking powder. Mix all together with milk. Flavor.

When cold, ice with Eggless Icings - 1 cup sugar, five tablespoons milk. Stir until it boils, then boil five minutes without stirring, and beat until smooth and creamy.

Feather Cake

1/2 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 2 teaspoons baking powder.

1 cup milk, 3 cups flour, 3 eggs.

Cream butter and sugar. Add milk and yolks of eggs well beaten. Sift flour three times, add baking powder last sifting. Add flour and lastly, the well beaten whites.

Bake in three layers, put together with any good frosting or jelly.

Ice Cream Cake

Mrs. F. F. Van Buskirk.

Filling 1 cup powdered sugar.

yolk 1 egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Cake 1 cup, powdered sugar, 1/2 cup butter.

whites 3 eggs, 1 cup prepared flour, 1 teaspoon lemon juice.

Mix ingredients for filling well and place on ice.

For cake cream butter and sugar, add flour and well beaten whites and lemon juice. Bake twenty minutes in two layers.

Maple Syrup Cake

Mrs. P. P. Herrick.

1/2 cup shortening, 1 cup sugar.

1 cup maple syrup.

2 eggs.

2 1/2 cups flour.

2 teaspoons baking powder, 3/4 teaspoon soda, 1/2 cup hot water, 1/2 cup ginger, 1/2 cup hot water.

Beat shortening to a cream; beat in one half cup of sugar, eggs, well beaten; then add alternately, flour, baking powder, soda and ginger sifted together, and hot water.

Bake in a pan about thirty-five minutes. Use a pan about ten and one half by seven inches. When cold, invert and cover the surface with maple icing and decorate with halves of nut meats.

Marshmallow Cake

Bake angel cake in two layers. Make boiled icing of one large cup sugar to whites of two small eggs. Cut marshmallows in halves and put on coating of icing, then more icing. Flavor with two-thirds vanilla and one-third almond.

Nut Cake

Mrs. G. H. Smith.

1 cup butter, 1 1/2 cup sugar, 3 cups flour, 1 pound dates, chopped

1 teaspoon soda dissolved in.

3 tablespoons hot water.

4 eggs.

1 pound English walnuts, chopped.

Pound Cake

Mrs. Agatha Cook.

1/2 lb. fresh Holland butter.

1 cup sugar.

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg.

2 cups flour.

6 eggs.

1 teaspoon baking powder.

1 tablespoon brandy.

Cream sugar and butter. Add the egg yolks (seven, if small) well beaten, flour sifted three times, baking powder sifted in last sifting. Have whites beaten very stiff and fold in; lastly, add brandy. Bake thirty-five to forty minutes in moderate oven - if coal stove, take forty-five minutes.

Susan B. Anthony Cake

1 cup sugar, 1/3 cup butter.

2 teaspoons baking powder.

2/3 cups milk, 2 1/3 cups flour, 2 eggs.

Cream sugar and butter with the yolks of eggs. Add milk and well sifted flour. After the other ingredients have been well stirred, sift baking powder into batter. Lastly, fold in the stiffly beaten whites.

Bake in loaf, flavor to taste.

Walnut Layer Cake

Chop nuts fine and mix small cupful with cake batter. Put boiled icing between layers, and sprinkle thickly with chopped nuts. Around the top place halves of nuts on icing.

White Cake

1 1/2 cups sugar.

1/2 cup butter.

1 cup water.

2 1/2 cups flour.

6 eggs.

4 teaspoons baking powder.

Cream sugar and butter thoroughly. Add one cup flour, stir thoroughly and add the rest of the flour and water, alternately. Then stir in the whites of eggs, well beaten. Stir all three minutes and bake in three layers.

Filling; - Two cups sugar, one-half cup water. Boil until it threads and pour over stiffly beaten whites of four eggs.

White Mountain Cake

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

2 1/2 cups flour.

2 tablespoons baking powder.

4 eggs.

Cream sugar and butter. Add milk, flour and baking powder. Have whites of eggs well beaten and fold in batter.

Bake in layers or loaf. A little more flour is used for loaf.

For hut cake add one and a half cup chopped nuts to loaf cake batter and bake slow in oven.

Gingerbread

Mrs. 0. M. Shuman.

2 cups molasses, 1 cup butter.

3 eggs.

1 teaspoon cinnamon.

3 teaspoons soda (heaping).

3 1/2 cups flour.

1 cup boiling water.

2 teaspoons ginger, 1 teaspoon cloves.

Cream butter, add well beaten eggs, molases and spices - dissolve soda in water and add - stir in flour. Bake in one pan.

Molasses Cake

Mrs. Barre.

1 egg, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup cold tea.

1/2 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 1 cup flour pinch salt.

Bake in shallow pan.

Molasses Cake

Mrs. C. Sullivan.

1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder.

1/2 cup molasses, 1 cup milk, 3 cups flour.

Cream sugar and butter; add beaten egg, molasses and milk; stir in flour sifted with baking powder. Bake twenty minutes.

Baked in layers and filled with boiled icing is very delicious.

War Cake

2 cups brown sugar, 2 cups water.

2 tablespoons cocoanut oil or any melted shortening.

2 cups raisins.

3 cups flour.

1 heaping teaspoon soda, 1 heaping teaspoon salt, 1 level teaspoon cloves, 1 level teaspoon cinnamon, 1 level teaspoon nutmeg.

Boil sugar, water, shortening and raisins together for five minutes. When cool add flour, salt, soda and spices, sifted together. Bake in sheet in moderate oven.