Pound Cake - Excellent

One pound of flour, one pound of sugar, three-fourths pound of butter, ten eggs, one nutmeg, one teaspoonful of mace. Cream half of the butter with the flour, add the spice, beat the yolks until very light, add the sugar, then the beaten whites and the rest of the flour, alternately. When this is thoroughly mixed, put all together and beat steadily for half an hour. If properly made, and baked, this is a delicious cake.

Centennial Pound Cake

Twelve eggs, leaving out three yolks. Beat separately. Three-fourths pound of butter, one pound of sugar. Sugar and butter worked together with the hand. Then add the yolks, next the flour, lastly, the whites. Flavor with rose, lemon or vanilla.

Baker's Pound Cake

One and one-fourth pounds of butter, one and one-fourth of sugar, ten eggs, one-half ounce of ammonia, dissolved in one pint of milk. Season with lemon, mace and cinnamon. Add raisins and fruit to taste, flour to stiffen.

White Pound Cake

One pound powdered sugar, one pound of flour, half pound of butter, whites of sixteen eggs, teaspoonful of Equity baking-powder, sifted thoroughly with the flour; put in moderate oven with gradual increase of heat. When baked, frost with boiled icing while both cake and icing are warm.

Golden Pound Cake

One pound of sugar, three-fourths pound of flour, ten ounces of butter, one cupful of sweet milk, three teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder, yolks of sixteen eggs.