2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 1 cup water, 2 of flour, 2 teaspoons yeast powder, salt and flavoring.
Sponge Cake—No. 2.
1 cup sugar, 1 of flour, 4 eggs, 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder, 5 tablespoons water. Rub sugar and yolks together until very light and creamy. Add water and 1/2 of the flour. After sifting baking powder and flour twice, add remaining flour with beaten whites, and a pinch of salt. Stir gently.
1, 2, 3, 4 Cake.
1 cup butter, 2 of sugar, 3 of flour, 4 eggs, 1 cup milk, 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon each of vanilla and lemon. Rub the butter and sugar until very light and creamy; then add 2 eggs and beat well; add 2 more and beat again; then sift in flour after having sifted it with the baking powder. Stir in milk with the flour, and add flavoring.
Molasses Plum Cake.
Scant 2/3 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 of molasses, 1 of milk, 3 eggs, 4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda stirred into molasses, 1 teaspoon each of cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon, 1 cup of stoned and chopped raisins.
Dark Cake.
1 cup sugar, 1 of butter, 1 of sour milk, 1 of molasses, 4 of flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 pound raisins. All kinds of spice. This cake will keep a long time.