White And Yellow Mountain Cake

Two cups sugar, two-thirds cup butter, whites of seven eggs, well beaten, two-thirds cup sweet milk, two cups flour, one cup corn starch, two teaspoons baking powder. Bake in jelly-cake tins. Frosting: Whites of three eggs and some sugar, beaten together - not quite as stiff as for frosting; spread over the cake, add some grated cocoa-nut, then put your cakes together; put cocoa-nut or frosting for the top. Yellow mountain: Yolks of ten eggs, one cup butter, two of sugar, one of milk, three of flour, one teaspoon soda, two of cream tartar.

Nut Cake

1. Two cups of sugar, one of butter, three of flour, one of cold water, four eggs, baking powder, one and one-half cups kernels of hickory or white walnuts.

2. One cup butter, two of white sugar, four of flour, one of sweet milk, eight eggs (the whites), three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, two cups hickory nuts, picked out of the shells, and cut up with a clean knife.

Orange Cake

1. Grated rind of one orange; two cups sugar, whites of four eggs and yolks of five, one cup sweet milk, one cup butter, two large tea-spoonfuls baking powder, to be sifted through with the flour; bake quick in jelly tins. Filling: Take the white of the one egg that was left, beat to a frost, add a little sugar, and the juice of the orange; beat together and spread between the layers. If oranges are not to be had, lemons will do instead.

2. Peel the oranges, and chop very fine; to two oranges take one-half of a lemon, squeeze the juice, and chop the rest; one teacup of sugar. Bake a crust as for short-cake, cut open, butter well, and lay the orange between.

3. Make a silver cake, and bake in jelly-cake pans; one large orange, grated; one cup of sugar, one egg (one large, or two small ones); cook all until a jelly, and spread between the layers.

Pine-Apple Cake

One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, one cup of milk, three cups of flour, whites of six eggs and yolks of four, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder well mixed through flour; bake in jelly-cake pans; grate pine-apple; sprinkle with sugar, spread between the layers; pineapple jam may be substituted; frost the outside; beat two tablespoonfuls of the pine-apple into the frosting.

Porcupine Cake

One large cup white sugar, one-half cup butter, one egg, one cup sweet milk, one and one-half teaspoonfuls baking powder, two cups flour; mix above ingredients together as usual, and bake: when the cake is cold and just before serving, pour the following cream over it, after having stuck a teacupful of soft almonds over the top of it:

Cream: Two eggs, one quart milk, one cup of sugar, two tablespoon-fuls corn starch, one-half teaspoonful vanilla; dissolve the starch in a little milk, add beaten eggs, sugar, and the rest of the milk, and cook as a custard.

Puff Cake

Two cups of sugar, three eggs, three-fourths cup of butter, one cup of milk, three cups of flour, two spoonfuls baking-powder; bake quickly in loaf.