d raisins.
=Lincoln Cake.=
2 eggs, 2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 of milk, 3 of flour, 1 teaspoon
cream of tartar, 1/2 of soda. Flavor to taste.
=Harrison Cake.=
1 cup butter, 2 of brown sugar, 1 syrup, 1 milk, 4 eggs, 5 cups flour, 1
nutmeg, 1 teaspoon soda. Fruit to suit.
=Victoria Cake.=
1 cup butter, 2 of sugar, 4 of flour, 4 eggs, 1 cup sour milk, 1
teaspoon soda, 1 cup molasses, 1 pound currants, 1 of raisins, 1
wine-glass brandy, 1 nutmeg, 2 teaspoons of cloves, 2 of cinnamon, 1/2
pound citron.
=Pound Cake.=
1 pound flour, 1 of sugar, 11 ounces butter, 10 eggs, 1/2 teaspoon soda.
=Sponge Pound Cake.=
1 heaping cup sugar, 1 scant cup butter, 6 eggs leaving out whites of 2
for icing, 1-1/2 cups flour, 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder. Flavoring.
=Aunt Sharlie's Sponge Cake.=
1 pound powdered loaf sugar, 7 eggs, beaten separately, juice and grated
peel of lemon, 1/2 pound dried flour sifted in at the last.
=Sponge Cake to Roll.=
4 eggs, 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 of flour, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, 1/2
teaspoon saleratus, 1 tablespoon cold water. Sift the sugar, flour and
cream tartar together; then add eggs, and stir together ten minutes; add
water, soda and flavoring, and bake in biscuit-pan. To make jelly roll,
lay on bread-board, spread with jelly and roll.
=Sponge Cake--No. 1.=
2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 1 cup water, 2 of flour, 2 teaspoons yeast powder,
salt and flavoring.
=Sponge Cake--No. 2.=
1 cup sugar, 1 of flour, 4 eggs, 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder, 5
tablespoons water. Rub sugar and yolks together until very light and
creamy. Add water and 1/2 of the flour. After sifting baking powder and
flour twice, add remaining flour with beaten whites, and a pinch of
salt. Stir gently.
=1, 2, 3, 4 Cake.=
1 cup butter, 2 of sugar, 3 of flour, 4 eggs, 1 cup milk, 2 heaping
teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon each of vanilla and lemon. Rub the
butter and sugar until very light and creamy; then add 2 eggs and beat
well; add 2 more and beat again; then sift in flour after having sifted
it with the baking powder. Stir in milk with the flour, and add
flavoring.
=Molasses Plum Cake.=
Scant 2/3 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 of molasses, 1 of milk, 3 eggs, 4
cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda stirred into molasses, 1 teaspoon each of
cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon, 1 cup of stoned and chopped raisins.
=Dark Cake.=
1 cup sugar, 1 of butter, 1 of sour milk, 1 of
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