Gold Cake

The yolks of fourteen eggs, three-quarters pound of butter, one pound flour, one pound of white sugar, juice and peel of two lemons. Cream the butter and grate the peel.

Silver Cake

The whites of fourteen eggs, six ounces of butter, three-quarters pound of flour, one pound white sugar. Season to taste.

Soft Gingerbread

One pound butter, half pound brown sugar, two pounds flour, one quart molasses, eight eggs, two ounces ginger, half ounce cloves, one teaspoonful of soda. Mix as pound cake. Fruit may be added.

Soda Cake

One pound brown sugar, one pound flour, four eggs, quarter pound butter, one teacup of milk, two teaspoonsful of cream of tartar and one of soda, or two teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder, dissolved in the milk. Bake quickly.

Jelly Twist

One cup flour, one of sugar, four eggs, one teaspoonful of Royal Baking Powder.

Jelly for the above. - Half a pound of sugar, half pound butter, whites of three eggs, rind and juice of three lemons. Let this jelly boil a few minutes, and then set it aside to cool. Bake the cake in a long pan. When done lay it on a clean coarse cloth, then spread the jelly over it. Roll the cake up, wrapping it carefully in a cloth until cool.

Marble Cake

Light part. - One cup butter, three of white sugar, five cups of flour, half a cup of milk, half a teaspoonful soda, the whites of eight eggs; flavored with lemon.

Brown part. - One cup butter, two of brown sugar, one of molasses, one of milk, four of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, one egg, and the yolks of eight. All kinds of spices. When ready, mixed, and beaten well, put it into deep pans, first a layer of dark, then of white, and so on, finishing with the dark.

Fruit Cake

Ten cups flour, four of brown sugar, five of butter, four of molasses, two of cream, ten eggs, two teaspoonsful of soda. Mix the butter, molasses, and cream, and melt them, then stir in the sugar. Beat the eggs very light, mix in the flour two pounds of stoned raisins, two pounds of currants, half pound citron, with spice to taste. Bake in a slow oven.

Ginger Pound Cake

Two pounds flour, one pound brown sugar, half pound butter, twelve eggs, two teacupsful of ginger, two nutmegs, one teaspoonful soda, two large spoonsful of mixed spices, one pint of molasses. Very nice.

Gingerbread

One and a half pounds of flour, quarter pound butter, quarter pound sugar, one ounce ginger, one dessert-spoonful of allspice, one teaspoonful carraway seed, one pint molasses.

Soft Gingerbread

One pint molasses, three eggs, one cup sugar, one cup of lard or butter, or both mixed, one cup buttermilk, one tea-spoonful soda, two teaspoonsful ginger. Make it just stiff enough to drop from the spoon.

Ginger Crackers

One quart molasses, four pounds flour, one pound butter or lard, ginger to taste. Mix well, roll and bake.