Sponge Gingerbread

One cup sour milk, one cup molasses, one-half cup butter, one and a half teaspoonfuls saleratus, one great spoonful ginger, flour to make it thick as pound cake. Put the butter, molasses and ginger together, and make them quite warm, then add the milk, flour and saleratus, and bake as soon as possible.

Snow Cake

One cup flour, one and a half cups sugar, whites ten eggs, one teaspoon cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda.

Plain Cake

One cup sugar, two and a half tablespoons melted butter, one cup milk, one and a half teaspoons baking powder, one pint flour, one egg; beat yolk and white separately.

Puff Cake

Two cups sugar, one cup milk,, one-half cup butter, three cups (scant) flour, three teaspoons baking powder, whites six eggs; flavor with rose or lemon. Stir sugar and butter to a cream, add milk and flour, then whites of eggs

White Mountain Cake

Two eggs, one cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup milk, two cups flour, one and a half teaspoons baking powder; Flavor to taste.

Sponge Cake

One cup sugar, one cup flour, three eggs, one tea-poonful baking powder, one teaspoonful essence lemons or any o her flavoring.

Sponge Cake

One cup of sugar, one cup of flour, six eggs. Beat the sugar and yolks of the eggs till very light, then stir in lightly the whites of the eggs, which have been beaten to a stiff froth, and the flour. Bake slowly till done.

Cream Sponge Cake

One cup of flour, one cup of sugar, one-half cup of cream, two eggs, one-half teaspoon of cream tartar, one-fourth teaspoon of soda.

Mrs. R's. Sponge Cake

Six eggs, one and one-half cups of sugar, two cups of sifted flour, one-half cup of cold water, one teaspoon cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda, and a little salt.

Sponge Cake

Three eggs, one cup sugar, one cup flour, one teaspoon baking powder, flavor.

Ice Cream Cake

Two cups of sugar, three-fourths of a cup of butter, one cup of milk, two cups of flour, one cup of cornstarch, whites of seven eggs, two teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in layers.

Coffee Cake

Set sponge as for bread. After it is raised add one cup and a half of sugar, one-half cup of butter, four eggs, one teaspoon cinnamon, and a very little lemon. Knead it well with your hands, but not to be made as stiff as for bread. Roll out the dough half an inch thick and place in a buttered pan, and set to rise in a warm place. When ready for the oven butter the top and sprinkle on sugar and cinnamon. Bake fifteen minutes.

Raisin Cake

Made same as coffee cake with the addition of raisins and currants, and to be made in loaves, and baked an hour.

Chin Tong Cake

Two tablespoons butter, one teaspoon yeast powder, one-half teaspoon lemon, one cup sugar, one and one-half cups of flour, and three eggs.

Mrs. R's. Plain Cake

Four eggs, one cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup milk, four teaspoons yeast powder, four cups flour. To be eaten fresh.