Almond Cake

Make the same as spice cake, omitting the spices, adding one-half cup of chopped almonds, one-half tea-spoonful of almond extract; cover with a boiled icing and sprinkle over with almonds cut in strips.

Pistachio Cake

Bake a silver or bride's cake in a large, shallow pan. When cold, cover with a boiled icing, colored green with vegetable coloring and flavored with almond. Sprinkle with blanched and finely chopped pistachio nuts.

Nut Cake

Add one-haf cup of chopped nuts (floured) to "Rocky Mountain" cake. Sprinkle a layer of chopped nuts and a little powdered sugar over the top just before putting in the oven, or frost with a white or chocolate frosting, and decorate with the whole nut meats. A maple icing is delicious on this cake.

Apple Sauce Cake

1/2 cup butter. 1 cup sugar. 1 egg beaten light. 1 cup raisins. 1 cup dates.

1 3/4 cups sifted flour. 1 level teaspoonful soda. 1 teaspoonful cinnamon. 1 cup warm thick apple sauce.

Mix in usual manner. Bake in a tube pan lined with buttered paper, one hour and a half.

Wedding Cake

1 lb. currants.

1 lb. dates, chopped fine.

2 lbs. raisins. 1 lb. citron.

1 teaspoonful each cinnamon, mace, allspice, cloves and 2 grated nutmegs.

1/2 cup brandy.

1 lb. butter.

1 lb. brown sugar.

9 eggs.

4 cups flour.

1/2 teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a tablespoon-ful of water.

Cream butter and sugar, add yolks well beaten, part of flour, spices, part of brandy, rest of flour, then the whites of eggs; lastly the fruit that has been rolled lightly in flour. Bake in a wooden starch box, lined with three layers of paper. This cake requires from five to six hours' baking in a moderate oven.

Fig Cake

Add one-half cup of finely chopped figs (floured) to spice cake after it is mixed.

Fig Cake (No. 2)

1 cup butter.

2 cups sugar. 6 eggs.

1 cup milk.

2 cups raisins.

2 cups chopped figs.

1 cup blanched almonds. 1 tablespoonful of honey. 3 1/2 cups of flour. 1 teaspoonful baking powder. 1/4 teaspoonful salt.

Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs well beaten, and the honey. Soak the fruit in brandy for a half hour, sift in the flour, baking powder and salt, add fruit, mix with the flour, then the milk. Mix well and bake in two loaves.

Rocky Mountain Cake (Loaf Or Layer Cake)

1 scant cup of sugar.

1/2 cup of butter.

1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder. 1/4 teaspoonful of salt.

1/2 cup of milk.

3 eggs.

1 3/4 cups of flour.

Flavoring.

Cream the butter and sugar, add flavoring of any kind, the well-beaten eggs, part of the flour (with the salt and baking powder sifted in it), the milk and the rest of the flour; beat thoroughly for ten minutes. Bake in gem pans if you like.

Orange Cake

Make the same as "Rocky Mountain" cake, adding the grated yellow of the rind of one orange. Bake in layers and spread with orange filling. Cover with orange icing.