Fully ten minutes before the cake is ready for the oven, light the front burner and in five minutes regulate the flame to furnish the desired amount of heat.

A loaf cake containing butter requires a temperature of 400°, cookies about 425°, layer cakes and pattie cakes 420°, angel food and sunshine cake 380°.

Cookies should be baked upon the upper slide of the oven, but the middle slide will be found most satisfactory for the baking of all other cakes.

Where two slides are needed for layer cakes use the two upper ones, being careful not to place the tins so that one comes immediately over another.