ANGEL FOOD

Sift one cup of pastry flour once, then measure and sift three times.  Add a pinch of salt to the whites of eight or nine eggs or just one cup of whites, beat about one-half, add one-half teaspoon of cream of tartar, then beat the whites until they will stand of their own weight; add one and one-fourth cups of sugar, then flour, not by stirring but folding over and over until thoroughly mixed in; flavor with one-half teaspoon of vanilla or almond extract.  Bake in an ungreased pan, patent tube pan preferred.  Place the cake in an oven that will just warm it enough through until the batter has raised to the top of the mold, then increase the heat gradually until the cake is well browned over; if by pressing the top of the cake with the finger it will spring back without leaving the imprint of the finger the cake is done through.  Great care should be taken that the oven is not too hot to begin with as the cake will rise too fast and settle or fall in the baking.  Bake thirty-five to forty minutes.  When done, invert the pan; when cool remove from pan.

SUNSHINE CAKE

Beat yolks of five eggs lightly, add one teaspoon of vanilla, or grated rind of one lemon.  In another bowl beat seven whites to a froth with a scant one-half teaspoon of cream of tartar, then beat until whites are very stiff.  Gradually add one cup of granulated sugar, sifted three times, to the beaten whites.  Fold whites and sugar, when beaten, into the beaten yolks.  Sift one cup of flour three times, then put into sifter and shake lightly, fold into the cake.  Bake forty minutes in ungreased cake pan.  As directed for sponge cake invert pan.  Remove cake when it has cooled.

MOCHA TORTS

Beat one cup of powdered sugar with the yolks of four eggs; when very light, add one cup of sifted flour in which has been mixed one teaspoon of baking-powder, add three tablespoons of cold water, one-half teaspoon of vanilla, one tablespoon essence of mocha, add the stiffly-beaten whites and bake fifteen to twenty minutes in two layer pans in a moderate oven.  Spread when cold with one-half pint of cream to which has been added one tablespoon of mocha essence, one and one-half tablespoon of powdered sugar and then well whipped.  Garnish with pounded almonds.

PEACH SHORTCAKE

Make a sponge cake batter of four eggs, one cup of pulverized sugar, a pinch of salt and one cup of flour.  Beat the eggs with the sugar until very light.  Beat until the consistency of dough and add the grated peel of a lemon, and last the sifted flour.  No baking-powder necessary.  Bake in jelly tins.  Cut the peaches quite fine and sugar bountifully.  Put between layers.  Eat with cream.

The same recipe may be used for Strawberry Shortcake.