Fig Cake

Two cups sugar, three of flour, three eggs, one-half cup butter, one cup milk, two teaspoons of Royal Baking Powder. Bake in three layers.

Filling for Fig Cake. - One-half pound figs, one cup raisins (both chopped fine), juice of one lemon, one cup water, one-half cup sugar. Boil all together until it jellies. Spread between the layers when cold.

Ginger Bread

One cup sugar, one cup sour milk, one cup butter, four of flour, two well beaten eggs, ginger, cinnamon, allspice and cloves. One-half pound stoned raisins and chopped citron, greatly improves it.

Tea Cakes

Two pounds flour, one pound butter, one and one half pounds brown sugar, four eggs, one teaspoonful Royal Baking Powder.

Custard For Cake

One ounce flour, one quarter pound sugar, yolks of three eggs. Mix well together, then add one-half pint milk. When well mixed, boil until stiff. Flavor with vanilla or orange.

Chocolate Cake

Three teacups of sifted flour, two cups of granulated sugar, one cup of butter, five eggs, beaten separately, one cup of sweet milk, two small teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder. After the cake is mixed, melt over steam one-quarter pound of Walter Baker's chocolate; stir it in. Bake in layer tins, with the chocolate icing between each layer. Very nice.

Lady-Fingers

Ten eggs, one pound sugar, three-quarters pound butter. Beat the eggs with the sugar until very light, then stir in the flour with a teaspoon, put them on white paper in the usual form, sift over them white sugar, bake in a quick oven. When done take them off with a knife, put two together, and put to cool.

Pound Cake

One pound butter, one pound sugar, one pound flour, one pound eggs, one large spoonful rose water or a wineglass of brandy, one nutmeg grated, and a little mace. Butter and line the pan with paper, put in the batter, and bake in a moderate oven.

Chocolate Cake

One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three and a half cups of flour, one scant cup of sweet milk, five eggs, leaving out the whites of two. Add two teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder in the flour. When hot frost with the whites of two eggs, one and a half cups powdered sugar, two teaspoonsful vanilla, six tablespoons of grated Walter Baker's chocolate.

Sugar Ginger Bread

One pound flour, quarter pound butter, half pound brown sugar, half teaspoonful soda dissolved in milk. Mix with milk or warm water. Have the dough stiff enough to roll very thin. Bake in a quick oven.

Gingersnaps

One cup dark molasses, one cup dark brown sugar, one cup lard, and two tablespoonsful of ginger. Boil all these together just five minutes. Let it get perfectly cold, and work in as much flour as it will require to work it on the board. Also put one small teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water. Roll thin and bake in a quick oven.

Cocoanut Cakes

The whites of four eggs, one pound cocoanut grated, one pound white sugar. Mixed without beating; flour enough to keep them from sticking.