Whortleberry-Cake

One cup of butter, two of sugar, three cups and a half A flour, four eggs, a cup of sour milk, juice and rind of a, lemon, a small teaspoon of soda, and two cups of whortleberries. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the lemon, then the yolks of the eggs beaten light, then flour and whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth, last the milk; dissolve the soda in a teaspoon of hot water and beat it in just as you put it in the pans. Bake all in one or in square tins. Fruit to be put in just after the soda.

Plum-Cake

One pound of butter, one of sugar, one of flour, ten eggs, one pound of currants, half a pound of raisins, one nutmeg grated. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the yolks of the eggs beaten light, a glass of brandy and the nutmeg, then the flour alternately with the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, last the fruit with two tablespoons of flour stirred through it. Bake like pound-cake an hour and a half.

Loaf-Cake

Four pounds of dough ready to bake, two pounds of sugar, one pound of butter, five eggs, and two pounds of seeded raisins; flavor with cinnamon and nutmeg, and add half a tumbler of brandy. Mix the sugar, butter and eggs beaten, into the dough. When thoroughly incorporated, add the brandy and fruit; put it in the pans and let it rise for an hour or more and bake.

Coffee-Cake

One cup of butter, one of sugar, one of molasses, four of flour, one of cold strong coffee, a teaspoonful of soda, and two of cream of tartar, four eggs, a teaspoonful of cloves, one and a half of cinnamon, one pint of stoned raisins, one of currants, and half an one of citron. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add spices, molasses, eggs, coffee, flour with the cream of tartar sifted through it, and last the soda dissolved in a spoonful of hot water. Bake in shallow pans, or all in one round cake.

Republican Cake

One pound of sugar, the same of flour, and a half a pound of butter, one cup of rich cream, five eggs beaten very light separately, two teaspoons of cream of tartar, one of soda, and the rind and juice of a large lemon. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the lemon, stir it well in, then add the yolks of the eggs, then the cream, flour (beating each in well), and last the whites of the eggs. Put the cream of tartar dry in the flour, the soda dissolved in a spoonful of hot water, and added last. Bake in one large cake as pound-cake.

Lady-Cake Without Almonds

Three cups of flour, two of sugar, half an one of butter, one of cream or rich milk, the whites only of four eggs, a teaspoon of cream of tartar dry in the flour, half an one of soda dissolved in the cream, half a pound of citron cut in strips and flavored with extract of bitter almonds. Mix like pound-cake, add the cream last, just before you put in the fruit, and bake quickly.

Clove-Cake

Four and a half cups of flour, three and a half of sugar, one of milk, one and a half of butter, four eggs, one tablespoonful of cloves, a tablespoonful of cinnamon, one nutmeg grated, a tablespoonful of molasses, a teaspoonful of soda in the milk. You may add fruit if you like, but it is a very nice cake without. Mix like pound-cake, and put the soda and milk in last. Bake in a Turk's head or pound-cake pan.