ICING—2 cupsful of white sugar and 1 cupful of water, boil until quite stiff, or till it candies or strings. Have the whites of 2 eggs beaten stiff, then add syrup, beating constantly. Flavor with vanilla. Bake the cake in three layers in a moderately hot oven.
Ella G. Rhoads.
NUT CAKE, (Layer Cake).
¾ cupful of butter, 2 cupsful of sugar, 1 cupful of milk, 1 cupful of corn starch, 2 cupsful of flour, 1½ teaspoonsful of baking powder. Mix corn starch, flour and baking powder together, add to the butter and sugar, alternately with the milk; lastly add the whites of 7 eggs.
FILLING—Whites of 3 eggs beaten to a stiff froth, 1 large cupful of granulated, or confectioners’ A sugar moistened with 4 tablespoonsful of hot water. Boil sugar and water briskly until it “ropes” or threads when dropped from the end of the spoon. Then pour the boiling syrup upon the beaten eggs in a small stream, beating hard all the time. Add cupful of hickory nut meats chopped fine.
SPONGE CAKE, (Hot Water).
4 eggs, 1½ cupsful of sugar, 2 cupsful of flour, 1 cupful of boiling water, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 2 cream tartars. Beat eggs, sugar and flour together and add hot water last.
GINGER BREAD.
2 tablespoonsful of butter, 2 tablespoonsful of sugar, 1 cupful of N. O. molasses, 1 cupful of butter milk, 1 teaspoonful soda in milk, 1 teaspoonful each of ginger and salt, 2 tablespoonsful of cinnamon, scant ½ teaspoonful of cloves, 3 cupsful of flour.