| 1 cup, medium size | ½ pint or ¼ pound. |
| 4 cups, medium size, of flour weigh | 1 pound. |
| 1 pint flour weighs | ½ pound. |
| 1 pint white sugar weighs | 1 pound. |
| 2 tablespoons of liquid weigh | 1 ounce. |
| 8 teaspoons of liquid weigh. | 1 ounce. |
| 1 gill of liquid weighs | 4 ounces. |
| 1 pint of liquid weighs | 16 ounces. |
Adelaide Cake.—1 cup butter, 1½ cups sugar, 4 eggs, 1 pint flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 cup dried, stoned cherries, ½ cup cream, 1 teaspoon extract vanilla. Rub butter and sugar to white, light cream; add eggs, 2 at a time, beating 5 minutes after each addition. Sift flour and powder together, add to butter, etc., with cherries, cream, and extract vanilla. Mix smoothly and gently into rather firm batter. Bake in paper-lined cake-tin ([fig. IX]) 40 minutes in moderate, steady oven. Watch carefully; if getting too brown, protect with paper.
Almond Cake.-½ cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, ½ cup almonds blanched—by pouring water on them until skins easily slip off—and cut in fine shreds, ½ teaspoon extract bitter almonds, 1 pint flour, 1½ teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 glass brandy, ½ cup milk. Rub butter and sugar to smooth white cream; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating 3 or 4 minutes after each. Sift flour and powder together, add to butter, etc., with almonds, extract of bitter almonds, brandy, and milk; mix into smooth, medium batter, bake carefully in rather hot oven 20 minutes in a fluted mold ([fig. I]).
Almond Cake, 2.-¾ cup butter, 1 cup sugar, ½ cup milk, 3 eggs, 2 cups flour, 2 level teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 pound almonds blanched and cut in strips. Cream the butter, add the sugar, and cream again; add the beaten yolks, then, alternately, the milk and the flour sifted with the baking powder. Lastly, add the whites whipped to a stiff froth and the almonds. Bake in a loaf in a moderate oven.
Angel Food Cake.—Whites 11 eggs, 1½ cups fine granulated sugar, 1 cup flour sifted four times with 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Whip the whites to a firm, stiff froth. Cut in lightly the sugar, then the flour mixed with the baking powder, lastly the vanilla. Pour into an ungreased pan ([fig. IV]) and bake 40 minutes in moderate oven. When baked invert pan on 2 cups; let stand till cold.
Apple Jelly Cake.—1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 3 cups flour, 1½ teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 cup milk, 6 apples, 6 ounces sugar, 1 teaspoon butter. Rub together butter and sugar to fine, light, white cream, add eggs 2 at a time, beating 10 minutes after each addition. Sift flour and Royal Baking Powder together, add to butter, etc., with milk, and mix into rather thin batter. Bake in jelly-cake tins carefully greased. Meanwhile have apples peeled and sliced, put on fire with sugar; when tender remove, rub through fine sieve, and add butter. When cold use to spread between layers. Cover cake plentifully with sugar sifted over top.
Bride’s Cake.—1 scant cup butter, 3 cups sugar, 1 cup milk, whites 12 eggs, 3 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 cup corn-starch, 3 cups flour, ¼ teaspoon salt. Cream butter and sugar. Mix flour, baking powder, and corn-starch, and add alternately with milk and whipped whites. Flavor with vanilla or almond extract and bake in loaf-tin lined with 4 thicknesses of paper; have oven moderate.
Banana Cake.-½ cup butter, 1 cup sugar, ½ cup milk, 2 scant cups flour, 1½ teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, whites 4 eggs, ½ teaspoon vanilla. Mix flour and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add milk and flour alternately, then vanilla and beaten whites. Bake in 3 layer-tins in hot oven. To receipt for boiled icing (see [Cake Fillings]) add ½ cup mashed banana and use as filling. Dust top with powdered sugar.
Chocolate Cake.—Make a cake as for banana cake, and bake in 3 layers. Put together with chocolate filling (see [Cake Fillings]).
Chocolate Cream Cake.—1½ pounds each butter, sugar, and flour, 14 eggs. Beat the yolks separate with sugar and butter. Beat the whites separately, and add to above. To ½ of the dough mix ¼ pound chocolate, and bake of each part (the dark and light) 6 cakes. For filling take ¾ pint cream, yolks 8 eggs. Sugar to taste; flavor with extract vanilla, put on fire and stir until it thickens, then put between the cakes.