Orange Cake

One and one-half cupfuls powdered sugar, one-half cup of butter, yolks of three eggs, and whole one, three cupfuls of flour, one cupful of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder. Bake in jelly-pans.

The Icing

Beat the yolks of three eggs, and add the grated rind and juice of two large or three small oranges; (be careful they are not bitter), thicken it with powdered sugar; put this between the layers of the cake, and ice it nicely on the top and sides. Any kind of white cake with the yellow icing, makes a beautiful contrast.

Orange Cake

One cupful of butter, two cupfuls of white sugar, one cupful of sweet milk, three cupful of flour, three teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder, five eggs, leaving out the whites of two. Bake in jelly-pans. Between the layers spread a frosting made of the whites of two eggs, one pound of sugar, and juice of two oranges. Grate the rind into the cake.

Ribbon Cake

One-half cup of butter, three eggs, one and one-fourth cupfuls of sugar, one-half cup of milk, two and one-half cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder. Take one cupful of this mixture and put in one jelly-pan, and another cupful in another pan, and bake. These are for the top and bottom of the cake. While these are baking, add to what is left in the bowl one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and two tablespoonfuls of molasses, one cupful of chopped seeded raisins. When this is baked, put it between the other two with just enough jelly to make them stick. Roll in a napkin till cold.

Spice Cake

Two cups of brown sugar, one cupful of butter, one cupful of sour cream, three cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, three teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, two of allspice, two of cloves, one nutmeg. Bake like jelly cake, and put together with frosting or jelly. Frost the top and sides with white icing. Add five eggs.

Hickorynut Or English Walnut Cake

One pound of granulated sugar, one half pound of butter, one teacupful of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda, juice of one lemon, and four eggs, three cupfuls of flour, two cupfuls of rolled hickorynuts or English walnuts, added with one cupful of currants and raisins. Bake in jelly-pans in a quick oven. Put together with boiled icing, ice the top and sides also.

Fig Cake

Silver Part

Two cupfuls of sugar, two-thirds cup of butter, two-thirds cup of milk, whites of eight eggs, three teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder, thoroughly sifted, with three cupfuls flour; stir butter and sugar to a cream, add the milk and the flour, and last the whites of the eggs.

Gold Part

One cupful of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder, sifted in two cups of flour, yolks of seven eggs, well beaten, and one whole egg, one teaspoonful of allspice and two of cinnamon; bake the white in two long pie-tins. Put half the gold in a pie-tin, and lay on one pound halved figs (previously sifted over with flour), so that they will just touch each other; put on the rest of the gold, and bake. Put the cakes together with frosting while warm, the gold between the white ones, and cover with frosting.