Cup Cake

Four teacups of flour, three of sugar, one of butter, one of cream, two wineglasses of wine or brandy. Nutmeg and mace to your taste. Five eggs. You can add fruit if you like. Mix it as black cake. One teaspoon of soda.

Cup Cake

One cup butter, two of sugar, three of flour, four eggs, put mace or nutmeg or any seasoning you like. A teaspoon of Royal Baking Powder. A pound of currants or raisins is an improvement.

Orange Cake

Six eggs, their weight in sugar, the weight of four eggs in flour. Beat eggs and sugar together, then add whites beaten very light; stir in flour last. Season with grated rind and juice of a large orange.

Doughnuts

Two pounds flour, rub four ounces butter, one and a quarter pounds white sugar, three eggs, mace and nutmeg. Make into a rising with a cup of yeast and milk sufficient. Let them 12 rise well. Fry in lard. Cover with pulverized sugar whilst hot. Cinnamon and sugar is an improvement.

Tucker's Cake

One and three-quarter pounds of flour, one and a quarter best brown sugar, three-quarters pound of butter, four eggs, one pint of milk, one teaspoonful of soda. Beat these together, add nutmeg and a little wine. Bake in a shell or large mould and eat with sauce.

Lady Cake

The whites of sixteen eggs, half pound fresh butter, three-quarters pound sifted flour, one pound fine sugar, two ounces of thin shelled almonds or rich peach kernels, three wineglasses of rose water. Bake it in a pan like pound cake, ice it over with plain icing.

Ormskirk Gingerbread

Two eggs beaten light, two pounds flour, one pound brown sugar, three-quarters pound butter or lard, one pint of molasses, one ounce of ginger, one ounce cinnamon, mixed; beat well together. To make very rich add candied lemon or orange peel. It must be dropped with a spoon in the pan.

Soft Gingerbread

Four cups of flour, two cups brown sugar, two cups molasses, one cup butter, one cup cream, two cups of milk, four eggs, one teaspoon of soda, one teacup of ginger.

Scotch Cake

Rub three-quarters pound of butter, into one pound of flour. Mix one pound powdered sugar, large spoonful of cinnamon. Mix into the dough with three well beaten eggs. Roll thin and bake in a quick oven. Grate sugar over them while hot. Generally you will have to drop it from a spoon, as it is almost impossible to roll it.

Sponge Cake

Balance ten eggs with sugar, six eggs with flour, break twelve eggs, leaving out the yolks of two. Beat the yolks and whites separately, until very light, then mix; add the sugar, few spoonsful at a time, stir in the flour in small quantities, beat the mixture very little. Add the peel and juice of one large lemon. To be baked with a slow heat.

Sugar Cakes

One and a half pounds flour, one pound butter, half pound sugar, either brown or white. Work these all together; add any seasoning you like.