Orange Cake

Beat the whites of three and the yolks of five eggs separately. Stir to a cream two cups of sugar and one-half cup of butter. Add one-half cup of cold water, two and a half cups of flour with two teaspoons of baking powder. Grated rind of one orange and all the juice, except about one tablespoon stirred into the cake. Bake in layers.

Frosting

Whites of two eggs, two small cups of sugar, with a tablespoon of orange juice. When cake is cold join them with frosting and frost the top. Mrs. Rice.

Orange Cake

Two cups sugar and half cup butter, beaten well together, three eggs beaten well, whites and yolks together, half cup sweet milk, half cup water, three cups flour, three teaspoons baking powder, flavored with orange. Bake in layers.

Filling

Three eggs, one cup sugar, juice of two oranges with a little grated rind, boil together until thick enough to put between layers. Pearl Winders.

Pixie Cake

Two-thirds cup of butter, two cups sugar, two-thirds cup sweet milk, two cups flour, one cup corn starch, two teaspoons baking powder, well beaten whites of six eggs. Mix in order written and bake in four layers. Make plain boiled icing and divide into four parts. To one add half cup each chopped citron and blanched almonds; to second add pulp of one orange put through a sieve and half cup grated cocoanut; to third, two tablespoons grated chocolate, half cup hickory nuts, half cup figs. Put I, 2 and 3 layers as written, on top plain icing.

Mrs. M. E. Wharton.

Burnt Sugar Cake

Put half cup sugar in pan over fire, stir until liquid smokes and burns brown. Add half cup boiling water and cook into syrup. One cup butter, one and a half cups sugar, yolks of two eggs, one cup water, two cups flour, beat all thoroughly, add enough burnt sugar to flavor, one teaspoon vanilla, another half cup flour, two teaspoons baking powder, whites of two eggs. Bake in two layers, using burnt sugar for icing.

Mrs. N. J. Emrick.

Neapolitan Cake

Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three cups flour, whites of three eggs, three teaspoons baking powder. Bake in two layers. To remainder add one teaspoon New Orleans molasses, one cup chopped raisins, one teaspoon cinnamon, one half teaspoon cloves, yolks of three eggs, little butter, flour and baking powder. Bake dark batter in one layer and put between two white layers. Lizzie P. McCrea.

Brides Cake

Whites 12 eggs, three cups sugar, small cup butter, one cup sweet milk, four cups flour, half cup corn starch, two teaspoons baking powder, lemon to taste. Ruth A. Carter.

Favorite Fig Cake

Two-thirds cup of butter, two cups of sugar, one cup half milk half water, three cups flour, three tablespoons corn starch, two heaping teaspoons baking powder. Sift three times with flour and corn starch, whites of six eggs beaten smooth, one teaspoon of lemon. Put eggs in last.