Snowflake-Cake

One scant cup-of butter, two cups of sugar, one of sweet milk, one of corn-starch, two of flour, one and a half teaspoons of cream of tartar, three-quarters of a teaspoonful of soda and the whites of seven eggs. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the whites of the eggs, then the corn-starch; beat all well together, then stir in the flour with the cream of tartar in it dry, then the milk with the soda dissolved in it. Bake like poundcake or in shallow tins.

White Cup-Cake

One cup of fresh butter, two cups of powdered sugar, four of sifted flour, and a large coffeecup of rich cream. Beat the whites only of five eggs to a stiff froth, stir the .butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs then the cream, a half of a small nutmeg grated, and the rind of a fresh lemon. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream add the lemon and nutmeg, then the cream, the flour alternately with the whites of eggs, last a tea-spoonful of saleratus or soda dissolved in a teaspoonful of hot water. Bake in shallow pans or in a large cake. By adding the yolks of the eggs to this recipe you have a fine cream-cake.

White Almond-Cake

Two cups of sugar, one of cream, whites of four eggs, a teaspoon of cream of tartar and half an one of soda, flour as stiff as pound-cake, a teaspoonful of extract of almond. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the whites of the eggs, then the extract, flour, and last the cream of tartar beaten well in dry, and the soda dissolved in a very little hot water. Bake all in one or in square tins.

Black Cake

Three cups of molasses, one of butter, one of cream, four eggs, six cups of$flour, a tablespoonful of ginger, and a teaspoonful of soda. Beat all well together, soda and cream last Bake in Turk's head.

Delicate Cake

One cup of butter, three of sugar, one of cream, and four of flour, the whites of ten eggs beaten to a stiff froth; flavor with the grated peel of half a lemon, two teaspoonsful of cream of tartar and one of soda. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the lemon, the whites of the eggs, then the flour with the cream of tartar sifted through it, and last the cream with the soda dissolved in it. Bake in shallow tins or all in one like pound-cake.

Hyde Park Cake

Three eggs beaten separately, two cups of sugar, one of sweet milk, one of butter, a teaspoonful of soda, and two of cream of tartar sifted in three cups of flour. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the yolks of the eggs, the peel of a lemon grated, then the flour and whites of the eggs alternately, then the milk with the soda in it. Bake in square tins.

West Philadelphia Cake

One cup of butter, one and a half of sugar, three cups of flour, three eggs beaten separately, one cup of cream, two teaspoons of cream of tartar, one of soda. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, flavor with lemon-peel, a little grated nutmeg, and a pinch of cinnamon; add the eggs, then the cream, then the flour with the cream of tartar in it, and last the soda dissolved in a very little hot water. Bake in square pans.