Lincoln Cake

1/2 pound butter.

1 pound flour.

2 cupfuls sour cream (or milk). 1 nutmeg grated.

1 pound of sugar. 6 eggs.

1 teaspoonful cinnamon. 1 tablespoonful rose-water.

Teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water and added to the milk. Mix the butter and sugar and put with them the yolks whipped light, then the cream, spice, rose-water and flour and a double handful of citron, cut fine, and dredged with flour, and last of all the beaten whites of the eggs. Stir thoroughly and bake in a loaf, or in a card, using a square, shallow baking-pan. This is a good cake and keeps well. Flavor the frosting with lemon. The white of toe egg can be left out for this purpose.

1-2-3-4-Cake

1 cupful butter. 3 cupfuls flour. 1 cupful milk. ½ teaspoonful soda.

2 cupfuls of sugar.

4 eggs.

½ teaspoonful mixed spice.

1 teaspoonful cream-tartar.

Orange Cake

Yolks of 5 eggs, whites of 4.

2 cupfuls of sugar. ½ cupful of water.

1 orange, grated rind and juice.

2 cupfuls flour. ¾ cupful butter. 1 heaping teaspoonful baking powder.

Frost with the following:

Frosting. White of 1 egg. 1 cupful white sugar.

½ the juice and grated rind of 1 orange.

Lemon Cake

1 cupful butter. 2½ cupfuls sugar.

5 eggs beaten separately.

2/3 cupful of milk in which dissolve:

½ teaspoonful of soda. No cream-tartar is used, the lemon juice furnishing the required acid. , 1 lemon, juice and grated rind. 4 cupfuls flour. Mix the butter and sugar. Add the beaten yolks, then the milk, followed by the flour and lemon, lastly the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Frost as follows:

Frosting. White of 1 egg. This white may be omitted from the above rule. 9 teaspoonfuls white sugar.

1 teaspoonful corn-starch. 1 teaspoonful lemon juice. A delicious loaf of cake.

Almond Cake

2/3 cupful of butter mixed with:

2 cupfuls of sugar. 2 cupfuls of flour. ½ cupful sweet milk or sweet cream.

Whites of 6 eggs or 3 whole eggs.

½ teaspoonful soda. 1 teaspoonful cream-tartar.

½ pound chopped and blanched almonds rubbed to a paste. If the whites only are used a gold cake may be made of the yolks or a boiled custard in the proportion of 4 yolks to 1 pint of milk, sweetening and flavoring to taste.

Cider Cake

2 cupfuls sugar. 4 eggs.

1 cupful butter.

1½ cupfuls cider with:

1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in it.

4½ cupfuls flour. 2 cupfuls (any kind) of fruit.

German Apple Cake

Peel, quarter and divide the quarters and cover the top of German Coffee Cake (after the sugar and egg has been applied) closely with these sliced apples laid in even rows. Bake without burning. Peaches can be used in same way.

Bread Cake (Nice For Children)

2 cupfuls light dough. ½ cupful butter.

1½ cupfuls of sugar.

3 tablespoonfuls sour milk.

½ teaspoonful soda dissolved in the milk.

1 grated nutmeg. 1 cupful raisins.

1 teaspoonful cinnamon. 1 cupful currants.

Will keep fresh and good a long time.