Icing For Cake

One-half pound of sugar, one-half gill of water; let it boil three minutes and pour while boiling on the white of one egg; beat until stiff. Season with orange juice.

White Fruit Cake

Three cups of sugar, one of butter, five of sifted flour, two cups of seeded raisins, whites of twelve eggs, three teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder, tablespoonful of brandy, one cup of milk. Cream, butter and sugar, add milk, then flour (into which baking powder has been sifted), and eggs alternately, lastly raisins, which have been dredged in flour. Bake in one loaf.

Ginger Bread. (Very Nice.)

To two full quarts flour, one pint molasses, two pounds brown sugar, three-quarters pound butter and lard, four eggs, four teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder, one small teacup of sweet milk. These proportions make a stiff batter; add currants or raisins if you like. Butter your tins, let it bake slowly. Take a clean feather, dip it in a little molasses, rub it over the top. Let it set in the pans until cool. Season with two tablespoonsful ginger, one cinnamon, one nutmeg.

Chocolate Cake

One-half cake Walter Baker's chocolate, one cup of brown sugar, one-half cup of milk, yolk of egg. Mix all together and cook until thick, and let cool. A scant one-half cup of butter, one cup of brown sugar, one-half cup of milk, two cups of flour, two eggs, two teaspoonsful Royal Baking Powder. Flavor with vanilla; add the caramel before the flour and white of eggs.

Lemon Butter

Six eggs, one-quarter pound butter, one pound sugar, rind and juice of three lemons. Mix together and set in a pan of hot water to cook, let it be of consistency of apple butter.

"Black Cake," No. 1

Four pounds raisins, four pounds currants, one pound citron, fifteen eggs, one and one-half pounds flour, one and one-half pounds butter, two pounds of dark brown sugar, one-half pint black molasses, two pounds almonds, blanched and sliced, one ounce cinnamon, one ounce mace, one ounce allspice, one ounce nutmegs. Bake very slowly; keeps a year good.

Spice Cake

Four eggs, whites of two left out for icing, one cup butter, two cups of brown sugar, one cup of sour milk, two cups of flour, two tablespoonsful of cinnamon, one tablespoonful of cloves, one grated nutmeg, one and one-half teaspoonsful of soda (in the cream), and a pinch of salt. Bake slowly.

Ginger Crackers

One-half pound butter, one-half pound brown sugar, one and one-half pounds flour, one pint black molasses, one tablespoonful ginger, one teaspoonful cloves, one of cinnamon, one of soda dissolved in warm water. Make soft and roll out as thin as possible. Bake quickly.

White Mountain Cake. (Best.)

Six cups white sugar, six cups flour, one and one-half cups of butter, three cups of milk, three cups corn starch, whites of twenty-one eggs, six teaspoons of Royal Baking Powder, three of vanilla.

Frosting for it. - Whites of eight eggs; five tablespoon-ful pulverized sugar to each egg. Beat frosting well.