This section is from the book "Three Meals A Day", by Maud C. Cooke. Also available from Amazon: Three Meals a Day.
Make the rule given for Snowflake Cake, and bake in two square shallow tins.
2/3 cupful sugar. 1 cupful flour.
1/3 cupful butter. 1/3 cupful milk.
1 teaspoonful baking powder. 1 cupful hickory nut meats chopped and put in last. Bake in one square shallow tin. Put together with frosting, or icing, the nut part in the middle.
2½ cupfuls sugar. 1 cupful sweet milk. 4 cupfuls flour.
1 cupful butter. 4 eggs.
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder.
Reserve 1/3 the mixture. Bake the rest in two sheets, adding to part reserved:
1 cupful raisins.
1 cupful currants.
1 teaspoonful mixed spices.
¼ cupful sliced citron. 2 tablespoonfuls molasses.
Bake in one sheet. Put together with frosting, the dark sheet between the two white layers.
2/3 cupful of butter. 1 cupful of milk.
2 cupfuls sugar.
3 cupfuls flour.
Whites of 6 eggs, or if not too particular, 3 whole eggs may be used instead. 8 teaspoonfuls baking powder sifted with the flour. Divide the batter. To one-half add 1½ cupfuls chopped figs. and bake in two jelly cake tins.
2 tablespoonfuls molasses. 1 teaspoonful nutmeg. 1 cupful raisins chopped.
1 teaspoonful cinnamon. 1 teaspoonful allspice. Bake in two jelly cake tins.
Put together in alternate layers of light and dark, using plain frosting. Almond Frosting is a very great addition.
 
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