Pound Cake Gingerbread

Three cups flour, two of brown sugar, one of butter, three eggs, one teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a cup of milk. Ginger and other spices to taste.

Ginger Cake

Three pounds flour, one pound sugar, one pound butter, quarter pound ginger, one quart molasses.

Soft Gingerbread

One cup butter, one and a half molasses, one and a half sugar, one of cream, four eggs, four cups flour, one teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonsful cream tartar or two teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder. Ginger and a little cinnamon.

Raisin Cake

Two cups brown sugar, one of butter, one of molasses, one of milk, three eggs, one teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonsful cream tartar, or two teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder, one pound raisins, or currants if you choose, five cups flour.

Cheap Plain Cake

Two cups sugar, half cup butter, one of milk, two eggs, three cups flour, two teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder.

Coffee Cake

Two pounds flour, one pound sugar, half pound butter, half pound raisins, one cup of cream, one of yeast, four eggs. Spice to your taste.

Cheap Black Cake

One teacup molasses, one of sugar, one of butter or lard, five eggs, two tablespoonsful of ginger, half a nutmeg, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in half a teacupful of sour milk, or two teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder. Add sufficient flour to make it stiff, so that it will drop from a spoon.

Superior Ginger Loaf

Five teacupsful of flour, one teacupful of brown sugar, two of molasses, two of sour cream, one of butter, six eggs, two tablespoonsful of ginger, two of cinnamon, two teaspoonsful of mace, one of cloves, two of soda, dissolved in the cream, one pound of currants, one pound of raisins.

Bride's Cake

One pound flour, one pound sugar, three-quarters pound butter, the whites of eighteen eggs; flavor with bitter almonds; beat very light.

Gingersnaps

Half pint molasses, one teacupful of brown sugar, half tea-spoonful of soda, a little salt, two tablespoonsful of ginger, one cupful of lard. Warm the molasses, stir soda in it, then the sugar; mix all together and roll out thin.

Hard Ginger Cake

Six pints flour, one pound of sugar, one pint molasses, one pound butter, five tablespoonsful of ground ginger, one tea-spoonful of soda in six tablespoonsful of buttermilk. Mix well together; roll out thin and bake quickly.

Starch Cake

Three coffee-cupsful of butter, three of new milk, nine of flour, three of corn starch, four teaspoonsful of cream of tartar, two of soda, or four teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder, and the whites of eighteen eggs. Weight, three pounds.

Cold Water Cake

Three cups flour, two of sugar, four eggs, half cup butter, two spoonsful Royal Baking Powder, one goblet cold water.

Rice Sponge Cake

Nine eggs, the weight of them in sugar, the weight of six eggs in ground rice. Mix the sugar and rice together, have the whites and yolks of the eggs beat separately, pour the eggs all in at a time into the rice and sugar, beat them well together for about a quarter of an hour, add the juice of one lemon or teaspoonful of rose water.