Pound Cake

1 pound pulverized sugar. 1 pound of butter. 10 eggs.

1 pound of flour.

½ cupful of sweet milk.

1 teaspoonfuls baking-powder.

Rub the butter to a cream, add the beaten yolk of eggs, sift in the sugar, flour and baking-powder; add the beaten whites of eggs last and flavor. The cake is improved by adding ¼ pound of citron sliced, or ¼ pound of almonds blanched and powdered fine with rose water. Flavor with rose water or any other flavoring. This will make two large loaves.

Water Pound Cake

8 eggs.

1 cupful of cold water. 1 teaspoonful cream-tartar. Nutmeg to flavor.

2 cupfuls of sugar.

3 cupfuls of flour.

½ teaspoonful of soda. | cupful butter.