am; add yolks of six eggs and stir until very light. Then sift two
cups of flour with one and one-half teaspoons of baking-powder sifted in
well (sift the flour two or three times). Grate in the peel of a lemon
or an orange, add the juice also, and add three-quarters cup of milk
alternately with the flour. Bake in moderate oven.

WHITE CAKE

Cream three-quarters cup of butter and one and one-quarter cups of sugar
very well. Stop stirring, pour one-half cup of cold water on top of
butter mixture and whites of eight eggs slightly beaten on top of water;
do not stir, add one teaspoon of vanilla. Sift two and one-half cups of
pastry flour, measure, then mix with two heaping teaspoons of
baking-powder, and sift three times. Add to cake mixture and then beat
hard until very smooth. Turn into ungreased angel cake pan, place in
slow oven. Let cake rise to top of pan, then increase heat and bake
until firm. Invert pan, when cool cut out.

MARBLE CAKE

Take two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, four eggs (yolks), one cup of
milk, three cups of flour, and three teaspoons of baking-powder (scant).
Cream the butter and sugar, and add the yolks of eggs. Then add the
milk, flour, baking-powder, and the beaten whites of the eggs; flavor
with lemon. To make the brown part; take a square of bitter chocolate
and melt above steam, and mix with some of the white; flavor the brown
with vanilla. Put first a tablespoon of brown batter in the pan, and
then the white. Bake in quick oven thirty-five minutes.

LEMON CAKE

Rub to a cream one-half cup of butter with one and one-half cups of
pulverized sugar and add gradually the yolks of three eggs, one at a
time, and one-half cup of sweet milk. Sift two cups of flour with one
teaspoon of baking-powder, add alternately with the milk and the
stiffly-beaten whites of three eggs. Add the grated peel of one-half
lemon and the juice of one lemon. Bake in moderate oven thirty minutes.

ORANGE CAKE

Beat light the yolks of five eggs with two cups of pulverized sugar, add
juice of a large orange and part of the peel grated; one-half a cup of
cold water and two cups of flour, sifted three times. Add two teaspoons
of baking-powder in last sifting and add last the stiff-beaten whites of
three eggs. Bake in layers, and spread the following icing between and
on top. Icing: beat the whites of two eggs stiff, add the juice and peel
of one orange and sugar enough to stiffen.

POTATO CAKE

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