A Good Cupcake

Three cups of sugar, one of butter stirred to a cream with the sugar, five eggs beaten light and added, a cup of sour cream, five cups of flour, a grated nutmeg, and last a teaspoonful of sale-ratus or soda dissolved in a teaspoonful of hot water. You may add fruit, if you choose. Bake in shallow pans or tins.

Soda-Cake

One teacup of white sugar, a heaping tablespoonful of butter, one egg, two cups of flour, and a small cup of milk. Stir together the butter,'sugar and egg; beat them light; flavor to your taste; then add the flour with two small even teaspoons of cream of tartar in it, and last the milk with a small teaspoon of soda dissolved in it. Bake in square flat tins.

Jackson Cake

One pound of sugar, half a pound of butter, half a pint of rich cream, one pound of flour, and five eggs beaten separately. Stir the butter and sugar together, add the eggs, flavor to your taste, then the cream and flour alternately; beat very light. Bake in square tins, or all in one.

Gold Cake

The yolks of eight eggs, one cup of sugar, three-quarters of a cup of butter, two of flour, half a teaspoonful of soda, a tea-spoonful of cream of tartar. Mix like pound-cake - cream of tartar dry in the flour, the soda last in a teaspoonful of hot water. Bake immediately. Flavor with orange or lemon-peel grated.

Cocoanut-Cake

One pound of sugar and half a pound of butter stirred to a cream, add a wine-glass of brandy, beat it well in, then one cocoanut grated, six eggs and three-quarters of a pound of flour. Bake in one cake.

Pound-Cake

One pound of butter, the same of sugar, same of flour, ten eggs, third of a small nutmeg grated, and the grated peel of half a lemon. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the yolks of the eggs beaten light, then beat the whites to a stiff froth and add them alternately with the flour, flavor, put in a deep round pan and bake in a moderate oven. Try with a broom splint.

Orange-Cake

Seven eggs, their weight in butter, flour and sugar; mix like pound-cake. When the sugar and butter are creamed, stir in them the rind of two and the juice of three fine large tart oranges, beat well, add the yolks of the eggs and the flour alternately with the whites beaten to a stiff froth; dissolve a small teaspoon even full of soda in another of hot water, and stir in the last thing. Bake all in one large cake. This cake must be well beaten together.

Dutch Cake-Half a pound of butter, the same of sugar, three-quarters of a pound of flour, four yolks and two whites of eggs beaten light. Stir together like pound-cake, spread it in shallow pans, and sprinkle sifted sugar thickly over the top, and cinnamon over the sugar. Bake in a quick oven.

Cinnamon-Cake

Four cups of flour, two of sugar, one of butter, one of sour cream or buttermilk, three eggs, one teaspoonful of soda. Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over the top while hot. Bake in shallow tins.