Lemon Cake

Sugar, 1/2 cup.

Flour, 1 cup.

Salt, 1 teaspoon.

Baking powder, 1 teaspoon.

Melted butter. 1 tablespoon.

Milk, 1 tablespoon.

Eggs, 3.

Apples, 2.

Lemon, 1.

Lemon juice, 1 tablespoon.

Sift together sugar, flour and baking powder, add butter, milk, well beaten eggs and flavoring and mix thoroughly. Bake in 2 layers. Put together with tilling made by grating apples and lemon and sweetening to taste.

Ribbon Cake

Sugar, 2 cups. Butter, 2-3 cup. Eggs, 2. Milk, 1 1/2 cups. Flour, 3 cups.

Baking powder, 1 teaspoon. Molasses, 1 teaspoon. Raisins, 1 cup. Currants. Clove.

Nutmeg.

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs well beaten, milk, and flour and baking powder sifted together. To 1-3 of this dough add the remaining ingredients with a bit more flour. Bake in 3 tins.

Most Twelve, South Weymouth.

Coffee Spice Cakes

Butter, 1/2 cup. Sugar, 1 cup. Eggs, 2.

Molasses, 1/2 cup. Raisins, 1/2 cup.

Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon. Mace, 1 teaspoon. Clove, 1 teaspoon. Strong coffee, 1/2 cup. Soda, a pinch.

Flour.

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, well beaten, molasses, raisins, chopped, and spices. Add coffee, which should be very strong, in which soda is dissolved and lastly flour to make a stiff batter. Bake in muffin or patty cake tins.

Molasses Layer Cake

Flour, 2 cups. Molasses, 1 cup. Sugar, 3 tablespoons. Butter, 2 tablespoons.

Egg yolk, 1. Water, 1 cup. Raisins, 2-3 cup. Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon.

Clove, 1/2 teaspoon.

Cream molasses and flour, add butter and sugar creamed, well beaten egg yolk, water, spices and raisins. Put together with boiled icing. Rae, Concord.

Portugal Cakes

(From Godey's Lady's Magazine, 1864.)

Flour, 1 pound. Butter, 1/2 pound. Egg yolks, 3. Cream, 1 gill.

Sugar, 3/4 pound. Currants, 1/2 pound. Lemons, 3. Egg white, 1.

Sift flour, rub in half the butter, add egg yolks and cream to make a soft paste. Then add sugar, currants, well washed, the grated peel of the lemons and the stiffly beaten egg white. Roll out the paste putting in the remainder of the butter. Cut into small cakes and bake in a moderate oven. Mrs. C. F. C.