Angel Cake

10 eggs (whites) 1 1/2 cups sifted sugar 1 cup sifted flour

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

Sift sugar once, sift flour four times, add cream of tartar and sift again. Whip eggs to stiff froth on large flat platter, add sugar lightly, then flour very gently and vanilla. Do not stop beating until put into the pan to bake. Bake in a very slow oven, about forty-five minutes. Turn pan upside down until cool.

Apple Sauce Cake

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter

1 cup unsweetened apple sauce 1 3/4 cups flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in tablespoon boiling water

Cream butter and sugar, add apple sauce, spices and soda dissolved, then flour. Bake in moderate oven.

Almond Cake

1/2 pound almonds blanched and chopped 1/2 pound sugar 1/2 teaspoon cram tartar

1 1/2 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon lemon extract

7 eggs

Salt

Beat yolks until stiff and mix with almonds, sugar, flavoring and salt. Add cream of tartar to whites beaten very stiff and fold into the mixture. Bake in pan with hole in center about one hour. This is about the same as sponge cake.

Bishop Cake

1 cup sugar

1 1/4 cups flour

1 cup dates

1 cup chopped walnuts

1 rounded teaspoon baking powder 3 eggs Salt

Beat eggs very light, add sugar, then to this add nuts and dates rolled in flour to which baking powder has been added. Baked slowly.

Black Cake

Part I.

1 cup grated chocolate 1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup sweet milk

Put all this in a dish on the stove, let it come to boiling point, stirring that it may not burn. Cool and mix with Part II.

Part II.

1 cup brown sugar 1 cup sweet milk 1/2 cup butter

3 egg yolks

2 cups flour heaped a little

1 teaspoon soda

Cream butter and sugar, add milk, beaten eggs, flour in which soda has been sifted and bake in layers. Fill with Black Cake Filling.

Chocolate Glace Cake

1 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter

1 square Baker's unsweetened chocolate

2 eggs

1/2 cup flour

1/2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon vanilla

Pinch of salt

Cream sugar and butter with melted chocolate, drop eggs unbeaten into this and beat for five minutes. Add milk, flour and baking powder, vanilla and salt.

Chocolate Loaf Cake

1/2 cake or two tablespoons chocolate 1/2 cup hot water 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup butter

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk

2 cups flour

4 teaspoons baking powder

Cook chocolate in water, cool. Cream sugar and butter, add eggs, milk, flour and baking powder. When chocolate is cool beat into batter. Bake in moderate oven forty-five minutes.

Cocoa Tea Cakes

1 cup sugar

1/3 cup butter

3 eggs

1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup cornstarch

3/4 cup cocoa

3 level teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla Chopped nuts Salt

Mix sugar, butter and eggs, sift dry ingredients, add to first mixture, add flavoring. Beat well and put into well buttered muffin tins, sprinkle nuts on top, bake in moderate oven.