AN OLD RECIPE FOR POUND CAKE
Cream together ¾ pound butter and 1 pound sugar and yolks of 10 eggs. Then add 10 whites of eggs well beaten alternately with 1 pound of sifted flour.
Bake in a moderate oven with a steady heat. The bottom of pan should be lined with well-greased paper.
"BUCKS COUNTY" MOLASSES CAKES (BAKED IN PASTRY)
Place in a bowl 1 cup of New Orleans molasses and ¾ of a cup of sweet milk. Add 1 teaspoonful of baking soda. (For this cake Aunt Sarah was always particular to use the Cow-brand soda), dissolved in a very little hot water. Aunt Sarah always used B.T. Babbitt's saleratus for other purposes.
Stir all ingredients together well, then add gradually three even cups of flour, no more, and beat hard. The cake mixture should not be very thick. Pour into three medium-sized pie-tins lined with pastry and bake in a moderately hot oven. These are good, cheap breakfast cakes, neither eggs nor shortening being used.