Buckwheat Cakes

Half a cake of yeast, one tablespoonful of salt, and one of brown sugar; one teacup of flour or meal, one quart of buckwheat. Mix all with warm water, and beat well when you make them. Stir one tablespoonful of molasses in before baking, after beating down the batter.

Buckwheat Cakes

One quart buckwheat, one quarter of a pound graham flour, one pint sifted corn meal, one iron spoonful white flour, a little salt. Mix with two iron spoonsful of yeast, and tepid milk and water to a thick batter. Beat well, and set to rise twelve hours before it is to be used. Add two spoonsful dark molasses, to make them bake a nice brown. Use either one-half cake compressed yeast, or one-half teacup of liquid yeast.

Bonny Clabber Cakes

Break one egg into a dish, put in one pint of bonny clabber, one pint of flour, with a little salt. Add one teaspoonful of soda.

Tea Cake

Take light dough, roll it about an inch thick, stick raisins over it. Make a mixture of cinnamon, butter and sugar, and spread in a thin layer over the dough. Note. - I generally set the dough to rise after rolling and placing in the pans, then cover with the raisins and the mixture. Put it in the stove and bake as bread. Cut into squares. Very nice.

Doughnuts

Three pounds flour, one and a half pounds sugar, one pound of butter, all cut up together, six eggs beat very light, two cups yeast, spice as you please; wet it with milk into a light dough, and set it to rise.

Crisp Gingerbread

One pound butter, one pound sugar, one quart molasses, quarter pound ginger if good, flour sufficient to roll them out.

Macaroons

One pound almonds, let them be scalded, blanched, and thrown into cold water, then dry them in a cloth and pound them in a mortar, moisten them with orange flower water and the white of an egg to prevent their oiling; one pound sugar, four eggs; beat all well together, and drop them on sheets of paper buttered, sift sugar over and bake them quickly. Be careful not to let them get discolored.

Cocoanut Drops

Grate your cocoanut, and set it before the fire or in the sun to dry, then mix with it an equal quantity of loaf sugar powdered, and as much white of an egg as will make the whole into a light paste. Flour some thick white paper and drop on it, bake it in a very slow oven. They take some time in doing.

Black Cake

Three pounds butter, three pounds dark brown sugar, twenty-eight eggs, three glasses brandy, two of rose water, three pounds flour, six pounds currants and raisins, two ounces mace, two ounces nutmeg, half ounce cloves, two teaspoons soda, dissolved in the brandy.

Minnie's Premium Cake

One cup butter, two cups sugar, one and a half of flour, one and a half corn starch, one cup thick cream, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, half teaspoon soda, four eggs. Beat yolks and whites separately.