This section is from the book "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book", by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Also available from Amazon: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
2 eggs
1 tablespoon cold water
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup potato flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
. Add water to egg yolks and beat until light; then add sugar gradually, while beating constantly. Mix and sift dry ingredients, combine mixtures and add vanilla, then add whites of eggs beaten until stiff. Turn into a greased and floured cake pan and bake in a moderate oven twenty-five minutes.
Yolks 4 eggs
1/2 tablespoon water
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup corn syrup
Whites 4 eggs
1/2 cup potato flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
Beat yolks of eggs and water until thick and lemon-colored and add sugar and corn syrup gradually, while beating constantly; then add whites of eggs beaten until stiff. Mix and sift potato flour, baking powder and salt, and cut and fold into mixture. Add lemon extract, turn into greased iron frying-pan and bake in a moderate oven thirty minutes.
4 tablespoons butter substitute 1/3 cup sugar 3 tablespoons corn syrup 1 egg
3/4 cup barley flour
3/4 cup corn flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup milk
Cream butter substitute, and add sugar gradually while beating constantly; then add corn syrup and egg well beaten. Mix and sift barley flour, corn flour and baking powder, and add to first mixture alternately with milk. Bake in a greased dripping pan. When cool split, spread under piece with Orange Marshmallow Filling (see p. xxxix) and cover with other piece. Spread top with Honey Frosting (see p. xxxix) flavored with one-fourth teaspoon orange extract.
2 egg yolks 1 egg white
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup corn syrup
1/2 cup buckwheat flour
1/3 cup rice flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup milk
2 1/2 tablespoons melted butter substitute
Beat egg yolks and egg white until thick and add sugar gradually while beating constantly; then add corn syrup. Mix and sift buckwheat flour, rice flour, baking powder, and salt. Add alternately with milk to first mixture; then add melted butter substitute. Beat thoroughly and bake in two greased square cake pans. Put together and cover with Palm Beach Frosting (see page xxxix), having frosting thick and rough on top. Decorate across each corner with a strip of candied pineapple.
1/2 cup butter substitute 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup corn syrup Yolks 3 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups barley flour
1/2 cup rice flour
2 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
Whites 2 eggs
3/4 cup walnut meats, broken in pieces
Cream butter substitute and add sugar gradually, while beating constantly; then add corn syrup, yolks of eggs well beaten, and milk. Mix and sift salt, barley flour, rice flour and baking powder, and add to first mixture; then add whites of eggs beaten until stiff. Fold in nut meats, turn into a greased cake pan, and bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven.
 
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