Straws

One egg, one teacup of thick cream, half a teacup sugar, one teaspoonful of Royal Baking Powder, flour sufficient to make a dough. Spices to taste. Boil it in hot lard.

Doughnuts

Two and a half pounds flour, one and a half pounds sugar, four ounces butter, three eggs, two nutmegs, a little mace, one teacupful yeast, half a pint milk made into rising. They can be risen with acid and soda, a large teaspoon and a half of each to this quantity; double of acid, or two teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder.

Lemon Cake

Two ounces of butter, four ounces white sugar, two eggs, the rind of two lemons and the juice of one. Beat the eggs separately. This mixture is sufficient for one jelly cake of ordinary size. It must all be stewed together, and allowed to cool before spreading it over the cake.

Apple Cake

Three and a half cups dried apples, three cups molasses, three and a half cups flour, half a cup butter, two eggs, one teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonsful cream tartar or one teaspoon-ful of Royal Baking Powder, one teaspoonful cinnamon, half a teaspoonful cloves, one nutmeg. Wash the apples and lay them in water all night; in the morning chop them fine, and boil them in the molasses slowly for one hour. When partly cool stir in the butter, and other ingredients. Bake in deep pans and frost them.

Horse Cake

Five pounds flour, two tablespoonsful butter or lard, four tablespoonsful ginger, one quart molasses, one tablespoonful soda in half a pint buttermilk, one teacup brown sugar.

Corn Meal Cake

Four eggs, half a pound butter, one pound sugar, one pound corn meal. Take out one handful of meal and add one of flour. Flavor with mace and brandy. Bake in muffin rings.

Cocoanut Balls

Peel and grate four nuts by hand, and not on a patent grater. To each nut allow half a pound of sugar and one teacup of water. Boil this into a thick syrup, and pour it over the grated nuts. When it is cool enough to handle make them into balls the size of a walnut, and put them on plates or panes of glass to dry. Keep them in a warm place for several days, turning them occasionally. A dry cloth put under them makes them dry quicker.

Chocolate Cake

Three cupsful of flour, two cupsful of sugar, one cupful of butter, one cupful sweet milk, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda. Prepare the ingredients as usual in cake making. Bake in shallow tin plates. This quantity poured into six plates will make the cakes of the proper thickness; or, bake in one loaf, and when nearly cold cut it into slices horizontally, and then spread the prepared chocolate over each slice. (See Chocolate Icing.)

Florida Cake

The grated rind and juice of one lemon, one pound flour, one pound best brown sugar, half pound butter, one teacup of sour milk or cream, five eggs beaten light, two small nutmegs, and one teaspoonful pounded mace. Mix as you would pound cake, reserving half of the milk for the last, to which add one tea-spoonful of soda. Grease the tins and pour the batter in. Use slow heat at first.