Crullers

Four eggs beaten separately, one pound pulverized sugar, one teacup of sour cream, one teaspoonful soda, a lump of butter the size of an egg, and flour enough to roll them out. Fry in plenty of hot lard.

Light Gingerbread

Two pounds flour, one pound butter, one pound sugar, one pint molasses, six eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, one wineglass of rose water, and three tablespoonsful of ginger.

Quick Doughnuts

One cup butter, two cups sugar, four eggs, one cup sour milk or cream, one teaspoonful soda, one of nutmeg, half a teaspoonful of cinnamon, and flour enough to roll in plenty soft dough. Fry in hot lard. Royal Baking Powder can be used instead of soda or cream of tartar.

Orange Cake

Six eggs, one pound flour, one pound sugar, half pound butter, one teacup of sweet or sour cream. Take six oranges, grate the peel, leaving out that of three. Then cut off all the white skin, and be careful not to let any seeds get in or the cake will be bitter. Use the peel with layers of oranges, alternately with icing, between the layers of cake, and bake in jelly cake tins.

Sugar Cake

Three pints flour, nine eggs, one and a half pounds sugar, three-quarters pound butter, one teaspoon soda, half teacup sour cream. Leave out the yolks of four eggs.