Cream Sponge Cake

Three eggs, beaten separately, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of flour, two tablespoonfuls of cold water, two teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder. Beat the sugar and yolks of the eggs till thick, add the water and flour, with the baking-powder; lastly, the whites of the eggs. Bake in layers, and make the cream as follows: One-half pint of sweet milk, one-half teacup of sugar, one tablespoonful of cornstarch; flavor to taste. When the milk comes to a boil, stir in the yolk and cornstarch, previously wet with a little cold milk; boil three minutes, take it off the fire, add the sugar and the beaten white; let it get cold before putting between the layers. Add one egg.

Rolled Jelly Cake

If the directions for making this cake are carefully observed, there will be no such thing as a failure in making it. The eggs are not beaten separately, and the faster the cake is put together the better it will be. Take two coffeecupfuls of granulated sugar, two teacupfuls of sifted flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder, pinch of salt; into this break six eggs, beat all well together, turn into tins, and bake in a quick oven to a light brown; when done, turn out on a moulding-board, and spread with jelly; roll carefully, and wrap each roll in a clean napkin.

Cocoanut Balls

Two cupfuls of sugar, three-fourths cup of butter, three-fourths cup of milk or water, whites of six eggs, two teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder; flavor with lemon, Bake in square pie-pans. When the cakes are done and cold, cut into square pieces.

Frosting. - Two cupfuls of sugar, eight tablespoonfuls of water; boil until it "ropes" from the end of the spoon, turn while hot upon the beaten whites of two eggs, beat well, and use it hot; dip the cake first into the icing then into grated cocoanut.

Orange Cake

Two cupfuls of sugar, two and one-half cupfuls of flour, two-thirds cupful of sweet milk, four eggs. Put three teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder into the flour before adding it to the other ingredients. Beat the eggs and sugar as for sponge cake, then add the milk and flour, with a little salt. For frosting, whites of two eggs, two cupfuls of powdered sugar, to which add the juice and grated rind of two oranges, and put together. This is a very accommodating cake when butter is scarce; can be used for any kind of layer cake, or it is very nice baked in a loaf.

Ice Cream Cake

Make a good sponge cake, bake half an inch thick in jelly-pans, and let them get perfectly cold; take a pint of very thick, sweet cream, beat until it looks like ice cream, add one cupful of sugar and flavor with vanilla; blanch and chop a pound of almonds, stir into the cream, and put very thick between each layer.

Little Gold Cakes

The yolks of eight eggs, three cupfuls of flour, two cupfuls of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, one cupful of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder; flavor to taste. Bake in small fluted pans.

Rice Cakes

Take four pounds of flour, one pound of ground rice, two pounds of sugar, one pound of butter, ten eggs, one-half pint of cold water, one-half ounce of ammonia, dissolved in the water, and added immediately to the other ingredients before mixing, flavor with lemon, wash with beaten egg and dust with broken sugar on top before putting in the oven.

Almond Cakes. Whites of eight eggs, beaten to a froth, stir into them one pound of powdered sugar, for half an hour, one-half pound of almonds, chopped, and flour sufficient to make a thick dough. Drop on buttered tins dusted with flour. Put in cinnamon to suit the taste.

Sponge Drops

One and one fourth pounds of sugar, nine eggs, one ounce of ammonia, one-half pint of sweet milk; flavor with lemon; one pound of flour. Drop on buttered pans and bake in a hot oven.

Shrewsburry Cakes

Four pounds of flour, two pounds of sugar, two pounds of butter, eight eggs, one pint of milk, one and one-half ounces of ammonia, lemon to taste. Drop on tins and bake.

Citron Cakes

Four eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, then together, with one-half pound white powdered sugar; stir one-half hour; one-fourth pound of chopped citron, and the same of chopped almonds; flour enough for thick dough, and bake like the above.