Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Small Sugar Cakes.

• 1 heaping teacup of sugar.
• ¾ teacup of butter.
• ¼ teacup sweet milk.
• 2 eggs, well beaten.
• 2 teaspoonfuls cream-tartar.
• 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water.
• Flour sufficient to enable you to roll out the dough.
• 1 saltspoonful salt.
• Nutmeg and cinnamon to taste.

Cut in round cakes and bake quickly.

New Year’s Cakes. (Very nice.) ✠

• 1¼ lb. sugar.
• 1 lb. butter.
• ½ pint cold water.
• 3 eggs.
• 3 lbs. flour.
• 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water.
• 4 tablespoonfuls caraway seed sprinkled through the flour.

Rub the butter, or, what is better, chop it up in the flour; dissolve the sugar in the water; mix all well with the beaten eggs, cut in square cakes, or with oval mould, and bake quickly.