Lemon Jelly

2 cupfuls of sugar. Yolks of 3 eggs.

Juice of 2 lemons.

Set the dish in boiling water and cook until thickened. Then add the well-beaten whites of the eggs. Spread between the layers of cake.

Jelly Cake

3 eggs, well-beaten. 1 cupful of sugar. ½ cupful of sweet milk or water.

2 tablespoonfuls of melted butter.

½ teaspoonful of soda, (both dissolved in the milk)

1 teaspoonful cream-tartar 1 1/3 cupfuls of flour.

Bake in four or five layers. Put together with any kind of jelly, marmalade or jam.

Roll Jelly Cake

3 well-beaten eggs. 1 cupful of flour.

1 cupful of sugar.

2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder.

2 tablespoonfuls of sweet milk or water.

Stir sugar, yolks of eggs and milk together, then flour and baking-powder sifted together. This will make it stiff. Add the beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in two long pie-tins; spread the under side of the cake with any kind of jelly as soon as it comes from the oven and roll. This makes two rolls, or it may be baked in a large, well-buttered dripping-pan and rolled in one large roll. If the edges of the cake are slightly split with a knife before hand the cake will roll more easily. Lay on a paper to roll and wrap in the paper tightly, fastening the ends and lay on a cushion or pillow to cool, that it may be perfectly round. Slice from the end.

Apple Jelly Cake

4 eggs, well beaten.

1 tablespoonful butter.

1 cupful of flour sifted with 1 teaspoonful of baking-powder.

1 cupful of sugar. Bake in 4 layers and spread the following jelly between the cakes and on the top layer.

1 lemon, grated rind and juice.

1 sour apple, pared and grated.

1 cupful of sugar. Boil all together five minutes.

Lemon Jelly Cake

Use rule for Feather Layer Cake. Put together with the following Jelly:

2 lemons, grated, rind and juice. 1 cupful of sugar.

1 egg.

½ cupful of water.

1 tablespoonful of butter.

1 tablespoonful of flour mixed with a little water. Cook over boiling, water until it thickens. Place between the layers of cake. This cake will keep well and is better at the end of a week than it is the first day.

White Lemon Jelly Cake

Whites of 2 eggs beaten to a froth. 1 cupful of white sugar. 6 tablespoonfuls melted butter.

1 cup of sweet milk. 2½ cupfuls of flour sifted with:

2 heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Bake in sheets or layers, flavor with lemon, and put together with lemon jelly. See recipe for Lemon Jelly Cake or others given at beginning of chapter.