Gingerbread

One pint New Orleans molasses, one dessert-spoonful of soda, put into the molasses, and beaten hard, half cup lard or butter, one cup of hot water, melted and mixed, one table-spoonful of ginger, five even cups of sifted flour.

Gingernuts

Three pounds flour, one pound butter, half pound lard, one pound brown sugar, one pint molasses, one gill cream, two ounces ginger, two ounces cinnamon, one nutmeg. Put the butter and lard into the flour, then the spices, then the sugar, molasses, and cream. Work it well, roll it out, cut it in small cakes and bake.

Gingerbread

One heaping tablespoonful of butter. Pour over it a cup of molasses. Add a small teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in a little warm water. Stir in well a cupful of sour milk, and a large tablespoonful of ginger. Then add a pinch of salt and three teacups of flour. Beat one egg well into the batter, and bake in greased tins.

Sugar Cakes

One pound brown sugar, six ounces lard, half a pint sour cream, two small teaspoons of soda, one quart flour.

Season with mace, nutmeg, or cinnamon; one egg. Flour enough to roll them out.

Angel's Food Cake

The whites of one dozen eggs, one and a half cups of pulverized sugar, one cup flour, one teaspoonful cream of tartar sifted in the flour, one dessert-spoonful of vanilla. Sift the sugar once, and then sift it into the cake. Sift the flour three times, and then sift it into the cake. Dip up a teacup of flour. Bake half an hour in a moderate oven, as you would sponge cake, without greasing the pan.

Nice Cake For The Yolks

Eight yolks, one cup sugar, two cups flour, half a teacup of butter, half a cup sweet milk, and one teaspoonful of Royal Baking Powder.

Silver Cake

Two cups sugar, two and a half cups flour, whites of eight eggs, half a cup of butter, half a cup sour cream, half a teaspoonful of soda, one spoonful cream tartar. Vanilla seasoning.

Silver Cake

Two cups sugar, three-quarters cup butter, one cup milk, four cups of flour, whites of four eggs, one teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonsful cream tartar, or two teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder. Cream the butter and sugar, and flavor with almonds.

Spice Cake

Two teacups brown sugar, half a cup butter or lard, two teacups flour, half a cup sour milk, one teaspoonful soda, three teaspoonsful powdered cinnamon, three of cloves, two of allspice, three of nutmeg, four eggs. Put the soda in the milk and spices in the flour.

Coffee Cake

Two cups brown sugar, three-quarters pound butter, one cup molasses, one of strong coffee, one teaspoonful soda, one of cloves, one of cinnamon, one nutmeg, four eggs, one pound five ounces flour, and one pound chopped raisins. Cream the butter and sugar, put soda in the molasses, then the coffee.

Crullers

Four eggs beaten very light, three teacups of white sugar, one of milk, five tablespoonsful of melted butter, three and a half teaspoonsful Royal Baking Powder sifted in the flour, one nutmeg grated, flour enough to roll out. Cut in round cakes, take a piece out of the centre of each with pepper-box top. Boil in lard, and dip in sugar while hot.