CABIN CAKE
To whites of eight eggs beaten stiff, add one cup of butter and two cups of sugar creamed together. Next add three-fourths cup of milk, three cups of flour, two teaspoonsful of baking powder and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Bake in layers in moderate oven.
FILLING
Put on to cook two cups of sugar and half a cup of water. Boil without stirring until it jellies when dropped into cold water. Then pour over stiffly beaten whites of three eggs, then stir into icing a small quantity of citron, currants, dates, figs, raisins, almonds, English walnuts (all chopped fine) and grated cocoanut, leaving out a similar quantity to be put on top of cake when iced.