Silver Cake

One-half cupful of butter.

One and a-half cupful of sugar.

One-half cupful of milk.

Two and a-half cupfuls of flour.

Four eggs (whites).

Two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder.

Place the ingredients together the same as for loaf cake, adding the whites of the eggs, well beaten, at the last. Bake in a well buttered tin for forty minutes.

Gold Cake

One-half cupful of butter.

One and a-half cupful of sugar.

One-half cupful of milk.

Two and a-half cupfuls of flour.

Five eggs (all the yolks and one white).

Two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder.

Two tea-spoonfuls of vanilla.

Beat the yolks and the one white until very light, and add them to the creamed butter and sugar. Then add the milk, the flour into which the baking powder has been stirred, and lastly the vanilla. Bake for forty-five minutes in a moderate oven.

Buttermilk Cake

One-half cupful of butter. One and a-half cupful of sugar. Two and a-half cupfuls of flour. One cupful of buttermilk. One-half tea-spoonful of soda. Two eggs.

Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, and add the yolks of the eggs, well beaten. Mash the soda, dissolve it in the buttermilk, and add the latter to the butter, eggs and sugar. Stir in the flour, beat until smooth, and then stir in quickly the beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in a well buttered tin for forty-five minutes.