2½ cupsful of sugar, 1 of butter, 1 of sweet milk, teaspoonful of cream tartar, ½ teaspoonful of soda, 4 cupsful of flour, 4 eggs. Reserve a third of this mixture and bake the rest in 2 tins of the same size. Add to the third reserved, 1 cupful of seeded raisins, ¼ pound of citron, a cupful of currants, 2 tablespoonsful of molasses, teaspoonful each of all kinds of spice; bake in a tin the same size as other loaves; put the three loaves together with a little icing, placing the fruit layer in the middle. Frost the top and sides.
Mrs. R. Crapo.
SPICE CAKE.
1 scant cupful of butter, 1½ cupsful of sugar, 3 eggs beaten separately, 1 cupful of milk, 3 cupsful of flour, 1 teaspoonful of cream tartar, ½ teaspoonful of soda. Mace, cinnamon and cloves, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla.
Mrs. G. V. Phillips.
ORANGE CAKE.
Beat the yolks of 12 eggs with 1 pound of pulverized sugar, grate the peel of 1 orange and 1 lemon, add the juice of both, then add the beaten whites of 8 eggs and ½ pound sifted flour.
ICING—To the beaten whites of 2 eggs add a little confectioners’ sugar, grate the peel of 1 large orange, adding the juice of same alternately with sugar until quite stiff. It takes nearly 1½ pounds of sugar.
Frances H. Potter.