Lemon Queens

One-half cupful of butter, One cupful of sugar, Rind of half a lemon, One tablespoonful of lemon juice,

Four eggs,

One-fourth teaspoonful of salt, One-fourth teaspoonful of soda. One and one-fourth cupfuls of flour.

Cream the butter; add the sugar gradually and cream together; add the rind and juice of the lemon; add eggs, unbeaten, one at a time, and beat until smooth and light; mix the soda and salt with the flour and sift into the batter; bake in muffin pans thirty minutes in a moderate oven.

Plain Loaf Cake

Two-thirds of a cupful of butter, One and one-third cupfuls of sugar, Three and one-fourth cupfuls of baking powder, Four eggs,

Three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, One cupful of milk, One teaspoonful of orange and vanilla extract (half and half).

Cream the butter; add the sugar gradually and cream together; add the eggs, unbeaten, two at a time, and beat until perfectly smooth; add the milk and flour alternately, mixing the baking powder with the last half cupful of the flour and sift into the cake; add the flavoring; bake in a moderate oven from forty to fifty minutes.

Spice Cake

Two cupfuls of brown sugar, Two cupfuls of flour, One-half cupful of butter, Four eggs,

One-half cupful of sour milk. One level teaspoonful of soda, One teaspoonful each of nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves.

Cream the butter; add the sugar gradually and cream together; add the yolks of four and the whites of two eggs; add the milk and flour alternately, mixing the spices and baking powder with the last half cupful of the flour; bake from thirty to forty-five minutes; ice with boiled icing.

Cocoanut Cake

One-third cupful of butter, One cupful of sugar, One-half cupful of milk, Two eggs,

One and one-half cupfuls of flour, One and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder.

Cream the butter; add the sugar gradually and cream together; add the eggs, unbeaten, and beat thoroughly; sift the flour and baking powder together; add the milk and flour alternately; bake in layers fifteen minutes in moderate oven.

Cocoanut Icing

Beat the whites of two eggs stiff; add two cupfuls of powdered sugar and beat together; mix cocoanut with one-half the icing and spread between the layers; spread over the top and sides of the cake and sprinkle thickly with cocoanut on top and sides.

Chocolate Cake

One-half cupful of butter, One cupful of sugar, Whites of five eggs, One teaspoonful of lemon juice One-half cupful of milk,

Two and one-third cupfuls of flour, Two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, One teaspoonful of vanilla and lemon (half of each).

Cream the butter; add the sugar gradually and cream together; add the whites of the eggs and lemon juice and beat thoroughly, then the flour and milk alternately; sift the baking powder with the last half cupful of flour; bake in two thick layers in a moderate oven twenty minutes; make an icing of one-third cupful of egg white, one and one-half cupfuls of confectioners' sugar, two ounces of unsweetened chocolate, one teaspoonful of vanilla; beat the sugar and whites of the eggs together for five minutes; cut the chocolate into small pieces and set in a bowl over the teakettle; add the melted chocolate to the sugar and beat until it will pile up in the bowl when dropped from the egg-beater; put a thick filling between the layers and spread over the top and sides; let stand until it hardens.