Peach Layer Cake

12 eggs, beaten separately. 3/4 lb. sifted flour. 3/4 lb. powdered sugar. Juice of 1 lemon.

1 teaspoon yeast powder. 1 can or 1 qt. finely chopped peaches.

Beat 9 eggs separately, add sugar to the yolks and beat until light, then add the whites whipped to a stiff froth and mix in lightly the flour, lemon juice and yeast pow-der; never beat after the flour is added; bake in layers, put sweetened peaches between. Make a meringue of the whites of 3 eggs and 3 tablespoons of sugar, put on cake and cook a few minutes until brown. Serve with cream.

Pecan Cake

2 cups sugar. 4 cups flour. 1 cup butter. 1 cup ice water.

Whites of 9 eggs. 2 teaspoons yeast powder. 2 teaspoons almond extract. 2 1/2 cups chopped pecans.

Cream butter and sugar, add ice water, then stir in flour, yeast powder, extract and whites of eggs well whipped, then add the pecans. Bake in moderately hot oven.

Philadelphia Drop Cake

12 ozs. sugar. 10 ozs. butter.

1 lb. flour.

8 eggs.

Beat as for pound cake. Drop on buttered pan and bake.

Pineapple Cake

Made the same as orange cake, using 1 cup pineapple in place of orange juice.

Plum Cake

1 lb. sugar. 1 lb. butter. 1 lb. flour.

1 lb. citron.

2 lbs. seeded raisins. 2 tablespoons allspice.

1 lb. currants. 10 eggs, beaten separately. 1 wine glass brandy. 1 wine glass rose water. 1 wine glass sherry.

Beat butter, sugar, eggs and flour until light, add fruits, rose water, sherry, then brandy. Bake 4 hours.

Potato Flour Cake

1 lb. potato flour. 1/2 lb. butter.

1 lb. sugar.

6 eggs, beaten separately.

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, then flour, season as you like, and bake. This cake must be well beaten.

Pound Cake. (No. 1.)

Whites of 12 eggs. Yolks of 8 eggs. 1 lb. sugar.

1 lb. butter.

2 teaspoons yeast powder. 2 teaspoons vanilla.

Cream butter and sugar, add yolks well beaten, stir in flour and whites of eggs whipped to a stiff froth, then the vanilla. Bake slowly.

Pound Cake. (No. 2.)

1 lb. sugar. 1 lb. flour. 3/4 lb. butter.

8 eggs, beaten separately. 2 teaspoons yeast powder. 1 gill sweet milk.

Beat well and bake slowly.

Raisin Cake

1 lb. sugar.

1 lb. flour.

1 lb. butter.

1 wine glass brandy.

2 teaspoons yeast powder.

2 lbs. seeded raisins.

8 eggs, beaten separately.

Cream butter and sugar, add the eggs beaten separately, flour and yeast powder, then put in the raisins dusted with flour, and brandy. Bake slowly.

Rosetta Cake

2 cups sugar. 1 cup butter.

1 cup milk.

2 teaspoons yeast powder.

3 cups flour.

1/2 cup corn starch.

4 eggs, beaten separately.

Mix well and bake. The same proportions make an excellent white cake, using 7 whites instead of 4 whole eggs. This cake will keep well.