Illinois Cake

Beat 1 cup sugar and 3 tablespoons of melted butter until it creams, then 2 eggs, saving the white of 1 egg for filling, 1/2 cup of sweet milk, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, sifted with 2 cups of flour, flavor with lemon and beat until very light; bake in two layers, put together with boiled frosting and sliced bananas.

Feather Cake

Two cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 3 cups flour, 1 cup milk, 3 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Loaf Cake

Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sweet cream, 5 eggs, 3 1/2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon saleratus, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar or 3 teaspoons baking powder; flavor to suit taste. Never fails.

Feather Layer Cake

One-third cup of butter creamed with two cups sugar, whites of 5 eggs well beaten, 1 cup sweet milk, 3 cups flour stirred in gradually, 3 teaspoons baking powder; flavor to taste; bake in layers; use any filling.

Lemon Cake, Good

Two cups sugar, 3/4 cup butter (beat well together), 1 cup sweet milk, 4 eggs, 3 cups flour, 3 small teaspoons baking powder.

Filling For Above

One lemon, grated rind and juice, 1 egg, 1 cup sugar; boil till quite thick; when moderately cool, put betweeen layers and cover whole with cooked frosting.

Yellow Delicate Cake

Two and one-half cups granulated sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 6 eggs, beat 1 at a time; bake in layers with a few raisins or nuts middle layer.

Fruit Cake, Plain

One cup sweet milk, 1/2 cup molasses, 1 cup brown sugar, I cup butter, 2 eggs, 1/2 pound of both raisins and currants, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon cloves and cinnamon, 2 teaspoons nutmeg and baking powder, 3 cups flour. Seed the raisins and flour the fruit to prevent its settling at bottom of pan. Butter paper and place in cake pans and leave a piece above the pan.

Plain Yellow Cake

One cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 3 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour.

Tea Cakes

One cup sugar, 1 egg, butter size of an egg, 1 cup sour milk, 1 scant teaspoon soda dissolved in milk - flour to thicken, flavor as needed; bake in gem pans.

Snow Cake

Two scant cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup sweet milk, 3 cups flour, the whites of 8 eggs teaspoons baking powder; flavor with extract almonds; stir together the butter and sugar, until the mixture seems to break and is almost white; sift the baking powder into the flour previously sifted, then put all through the sieve again; add alternately and little by little the milk, beaten whites and flour; now beat for fifteen minutes. After the cake has been in the oven 5 minutes, open the door for 3 minutes, then close it and at the end of five minutes, again open the door for 2 or 3 minutes; then close the door until the cake is done. Use boiled icing flavored with lemon.

Fruit Cake - Fine

One and one-half pound of flour, 1 1/4 pound brown sugar, 3/4 pound butter, 1 pound raisins, 1 pound currants, 1/2 pound figs, 1 pint sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice; 1 large cup almonds, 1 glass brandy, 4 eggs, juice 1 lemon and 1/2 pound citron.

Sunshine Cake

Three-fourths cup butter, 2 cups sugar creamed, yolks 10 eggs, 2 1/2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup milk, teaspoon lemon or orange, boil 50 minutes and frost with yellow frosting made of yolk of 1 egg, 1 tablespoon water, 1 teaspoon lemon or orange flavor and confectioner's sugar until thick enough to spread.

Blackberry Cake

One cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup blackberry jam, 3 tablespoons sour cream, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, one cup flour, bake in long, shallow pan.

Irish English Cake

One pound butter, 1 pound currants, 1 pound raisins, 1 pound sugar, 6 eggs, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 1 . pint sweet milk, pinch of salt, 1/2 pound candied lemon peel, .6 drops essence of lemon, 7 cups flour, one to be used over the fruit. Bake 1 hour and 20 minutes, but you can test it better with a broom straw.

Sunshine Cake

Whites of 7 eggs, yolks of 5, l 1/4 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, teaspoon cream of tartar, a pinch of salt, added to whites of eggs before whipping, flavor to taste. Sift, measure and set aside flour and sugar. Whip eggs to a foam, add cream of tartar and whip until very stiff, add sugar to the whites, and beat in, then yolks beaten very stiff, then flavor and beat flour to be folded lightly through. Bake in moderate oven 30 to 40 minutes.

Lemon Jelly

Grate rind 1 lemon, add juice, 1 egg, 1 cup sugar (white) 4 tablespoons cold water; mix well together and cook over steam until clear.