Nut Cake.
One cup maple sugar, 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of chopped raisins, 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, ½ cup of sweet milk, 2 eggs, 1 cup of chopped English walnuts.
Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar gradually, and when light add the eggs well beaten, then the milk, and last the flour in which the baking powder has been thoroughly mixed. Mix this quickly and add the nuts and raisins. Bake in rather deep sheets in a moderate oven about 35 minutes.
Marble Cake.
Yolks of 4 eggs, ½ cup of butter, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 1½ cups flour, ½ cup of maple molasses, ½ cup sour cream, spices of all kinds.
For the light part: Whites of 4 eggs beaten to a froth, ½ cup of butter, ½ teaspoon of cream tartar, ½ cup of flour, 1 cup of white sugar, 2 tablespoons of sweet milk, in which dissolve ½ teaspoon of soda.
Apple Cake.
One cup thinly sliced sweet apples cooked until transparent (in one cup maple sugar, and water to make a good syrup); when cool, add 1 cup dry maple sugar, 2 eggs, 1 heaping teaspoonful mixed spices, ½ cup of butter, ½ cup cream, 1 teaspoonful soda, flour till the spoon will stand in the middle without falling.
Shrove Tuesday Cake.
One quart of milk, 3 cups of flour, ½ teaspoonful of salt, 2 eggs, 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder.