Ruth's Cake

One cupful sugar, one-half cup butter, one cupful sour milk, one teaspoonful soda, one-half nutmeg, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one cupful chopped raisins, two and one-half cupfuls flour, a little salt.

No Name Cake

One scant cup of butter, one cupful of brown sugar, one-fourth cup milk, one cupful molasses, three cupfuls flour, two eggs, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one cupful currants, one-half pound of citron, one and one-half pounds of seedless raisins, one teaspoonful each cloves and cinnamon, one-half nutmeg; add more fruit if you wish. Bake in bread pans from two to three hours.

Cold Water Cake

One cupful of butter, two cupfuls browu sugar, three cupfuls flour, one cupful cold water, three eggs, well beaten, one teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful cloves, one nutmeg, one tablespoonful cinnamon, one cupful raisins or currants.

Coffer Cake, (No. 1,)

Two cupfuls brown sugar, one cupful butter, one cupful molasses, one cupful strong coffee, as prepared for the table, four eggs, one teaspoonful saleratus, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, two teapoonfuls cloves, one teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, one pound of raisins, one pound of currants, four cupfuls of flour.

Coffee Cake. (No. 2.)

One cupful of butter, one cupful of sugar, one cupful molasses, one pound of raisins, one teaspoonful each of soda, cinnamon and allspice, one-half nutmeg, three eggs (it can be made with one or two eggs). Sift the soda in the molasses. Excellent.

Spice Cake

Four and one-half cupfuls of flour, three cupfuls of sugar, one and one-half cupfuls butter, one cupful of sour milk, four eggs, one teaspoonful of saleratus, two teaspoonfuls each of cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon, one pound of raisins, one pound of currants, one-fourth pound of citron.

Mount Vernon Cake

One and one-fourth pounds of white sugar, one-half pound of butter, one and three-fourths pounds of flour, six eggs, one pint of sour cream, one teaspoonful soda, dissolved in water and strained; rind of two lemons, juice of one lemon, one nutmeg, a little mace, one pound of raisins, one pound of currants, one-half pound of citron. Cream the butter and sugar well together, add the yolks of the eggs, well beaten, then the cream and flour, alternately, then the beaten whites of the eggs. Have the fruit floured, and stir this in last of all. Bake about two and one-half hours, and cover with buttered paper while baking.

Nut Cake

Two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of butter, three cupfuls of flour, one cupful of cold water, four eggs, three teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder, three cupfuls kernels of hickorynuts or white walnuts, carefully picked out, and added last of all.

Clove Cake

Four and one-half coffeecupfuls of sifted flour, three coffeecup-fuls of sugar, one and one-half cupfuls of butter, one teacupful of cream or sour milk, one teaspoonful of saleratus, four eggs, one tablespoonful each cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, one pound each of fruit and citron.