White Mountain Cake

One pound flour, one pound white sugar, half pound butter, six eggs, one teacup sweet milk, one teaspoon soda, dissolved in milk, two teaspoons cream of tartar mixed with the flour. Bake in loaves or jelly tins, and flavor with extract bitter almond according to taste.

Black Cake (Cheap)

One and three-quarter pounds flour, one and a quarter pounds brown sugar, one pound butter, one pound raisins, one pound currants, four eggs, one pint milk, one teaspoon soda, one nutmeg, with other spices, wine and brandy.

Fruit Cake

One pound butter, one pound sugar, one and a quarter pounds flour, ten eggs, quarter pint brandy, one ounce cinnamon, same of nutmeg and allspice, one pound citron, three pounds currants, four pounds raisins.

Ginger Pound Cake

Six eggs, two cups butter, four cups sugar, two cups molasses, six to seven cups flour, two cups sour cream, one tea-spoonful of soda. Ginger and spice to taste.

Ice Cream Cake

Two cups sugar, three cups flour, the whites of eight eggs, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful soda, half a cup sweet milk or one teaspoonful of Royal Baking Powder. Bake in thin cakes.

Albany Cake

One and a half pounds flour, half a pound butter, one egg, one cup cream, one pound brown sugar, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in the cream, two ounces cinnamon. Mix sugar and flour together, then work in the butter, then add the cinnamon. Beat the egg and mix it with the cream. Roll out in sugar, not flour.

Lemon Jelly Cake

Make a sponge batter. The filling is as follows: One pound white sugar, half a pound butter, the juice and rind of five lemons, whites of five eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Stir all together, and put it on the fire till it comes to a boil, then set aside to cool. When cool bake the sponge cake in sheets, spread the mixture thickly on it, and make a roll, wrapping it so as to hold it together.

Doughnuts

One cup sugar, not quite half a cup butter, half cup sour milk, with half a teaspoonful soda dissolved in it, four eggs, a little nutmeg, and flour enough to roll them out.

French Buns

One pound flour, one pound sugar, half a pound butter, eight eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonsful of cream of tartar or two teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder, one teacup of sour cream, and one large lemon. Cream the butter and sugar, beat the eggs very light and separately. After the butter is well creamed stir in the flour the last thing. Bake twenty minutes. Cut it, while hot, in small squares.

Lemon Butter (For Filling Cake)

Twelve eggs, two pounds of sugar, half pound butter, six lemons, rind and juice. Mix all together, and stew on a slow fire till as thick as honey, stirring constantly. Bottled, this will keep for weeks.

Cocoanut Cakes Or Balls

The whites of four eggs, one pound of cocoanut, one pound of loaf sugar, mixed together without beating. Flour enough to keep it from sticking.