Feather Cake

2 cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 4 eggs, 1 cup sweet milk, 3 cups flour, 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Flavor with vanilla.

Mrs. H. M. Stokes.

Feather Cake

2 eggs, 2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 3 cups flour, Cream the butter, add sugar, then eggs, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoonful baking powder.

Mrs. J. A. Cremer.

Federal Cake

1 qt. milk, 4 eggs, 1/2 lb. butter, 1/2 pt. yeast. Scald the milk, and when lukewarm stir in the yeast, eggs and butter, with enough flour to make it as stiff as you can stir it with a spoon. Set in a warm place to rise, then work out into pans and let rise again, then bake from 1/2 to 3/4 of an hour. When baked split into layers, spread with butter, sugar, and cinnamon. Eat while hot. This makes 2 good-sized cakes. Miss Anna Forney.

Fig Cake

Three-fourth lb. of sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 3 eggs, J cup sweet milk, 3/4 lb. flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1/2 lb. figs, cut fine. Flavor with vanilla.

Icing For Cakes

2 cups of sugar, 1 cup water, boil until threads, pour into 2 well beaten whites of eggs, flavor with vanilla. Mrs. C .Anthony.

Prune Cake

Cream together 1 3/4 cups sugar and 3/4 cup butter, 3 tablespoonfuls sour cream or milk, 4 whole eggs, 1 cup stewed prunes, chopped. 1 teaspoonful each of cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg, and 1/2 tea spoonful cloves. 2 cups flour measured after sifting twice. 1 level teaspoonful soda dissolved in a little water. 1 tea spoonful vanilla. Mix in order given.

Icing

To boiled icing add 1 cup of chopped raisins and 1 cup chopped nuts.

Mrs. Emil J. Stout.

Float Cake

2 cups of sugar, J cup of butter, 1 cup of milk, 3 cups of flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites of 6 eggs.

Howard Loaf Cake

5 cups of flour, 1 1/2 cups butter, 3 cups sugar, 1 1/2 cups sweet milk, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 4 eggs, 1 1/2 wineglasses of wine, 1/2 lb. raisins, 1/2 lb. currants. Mrs. L. B. Sprenkle.

Johnnie's Birthday Cake.

1 cup butter rubbed to a cream with 2 cupfuls of sugar, 3 cupfuls of flour sifted 3 times with 2 level teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 4 eggs, beat whites and yolks separately, very light, 1 cupful of sweet-milk. White or pink icing.

Mrs. A. R. Brodbeck.

Jelly Roll

3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar, 1/2 teaspoonful soda dissolved in a teaspoonful of water. Bake in a long pan, spread with jelly, then roll. Mrs. F. C. Zinn.

Kaiser Cake

3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup cornstarch, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, 1/4 cup of butter, 1/2 cup sweet milk, and vanilla to taste.

Icing

Cup sugar, little water to boil, and whites of 2 eggs.

Mrs. Anna K. Kaiser.

Lady Cake

1 cup butter, 2 cups pulverized sugar, 1 cup corn-starch, 2 cups flour, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 teaspoon-fuls baking powder, whites 7 eggs, flavor with bitter almond. Cream butter and sugar, then add milk. Sift baking powder 4 times in cornstarch and flour, then add to mixture, flavor, last add beaten whites of eggs. Mrs. H. M. Stokes.