Cocoanut-Cake, No. 2

Two cups of sugar, one of butter, four of flour, half an one of milk, the whites of six eggs beaten to a stiff froth, half a teaspoon of soda dissolved in the milk, a teaspoonful of cream of tartar mixed in the flour, one grated cocoanut. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the milk with the soda, then the whites of the eggs, then flour, last the cocoanut. For frosting: whites of two eggs beaten with half a pound of powdered sugar; stir in half a grated cocoanut, cover the cake with it when nearly cold.

Lady-Cake

The whites only of sixteen eggs, one pound of sifted sugar, ten ounces of fresh butter, three-quarters of a pound of sifted flour, three ounces of bitter almonds blanched and pounded in a mortar gradually with two wine-glasses of rose-water until a paste. Mix like pound-cake, and add the almonds last, and bake in square tins or all in a large cake.

Cocoanut-Cake

Three cups of white sugar, one of butter, one of sweet milk, four of flour, the whites of ten eggs. Mix like pound-cake; beat the whites of two eggs with five tablespoonsful of powdered sugar, spread over each layer of cake, and sprinkle it thick with grated cocoanut.

Orange-Cake

Two cups of sifted sugar, two cups of flour with a teaspoonfui of cream of tartar sifted in it, half a cup of water a little warm, with half a teaspoonfui of soda dissolved in it, the yolks of five eggs, the whites of four, the juice and grated rind and the inside soft part of one large orange. Beat the yolks of the eggs with the sugar, then add the orange, then the flour alternately with the whites of the eggs, and last the water and soda. Bake in jelly-cake tins half an inch thick when baked. The grated rind and juice of one orange mixed stiff with sifted sugar, spread between the cakes, the top one iced. This is a very fine cake.

Washington Cake

One cup of sugar, butter the size of an egg, two eggs, half a cup of sweet milk, a heaping cup of flour, a teaspoon even full of cream of tartar, half an one of soda; stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs beaten very light, then the flour with cream of tartar sifted through it alternately with part of the milk; the other part dissolve the soda in and stir in last of all. Bake in three cakes in jelly-cake tins. Filling - one cap of sugar, one egg, two tart apples grated, and the juice and rind of one lemon (the rind grated); beat all well together, let it come to a boil, and spread while the cake is hot.

White Mountain Cake

One pound of flour, the same of sugar, half a pound of butter, six eggs, one cup of sour cream, one teaspoonfui of soda beaten in the cream, three teaspoonsful of vanilla extract; stir the butter and sugar to a cream, beat the eggs separately and then together, and add them to the sugar and butter, then the vanilla, the cream, and flour alternately. Bake in three cakes in jelly-cake tins, spread icing flavored with vanilla between the cakes, and sift powdered sugar over the top cake.