A Good Cup-cake.

One cup of butter.

Two cups of sugar—powdered.

Four eggs.

One cup of sweet milk.

One teaspoonful of vanilla.

One half-teaspoonful of mace.

Three cups of prepared flour, or the same quantity of family-flour with one even teaspoonful of soda and two of cream-tartar, sifted twice with it.

Two teaspoonfuls of baking powder will serve the same end. Mix as directed in “Practical Preliminaries,” and bake in small tins.