A CITRON CAKE

1/2 cup butter. 1 cup sugar. 4 eggs. 2 tablespoonfuls water. 1/4 pound of thinly shaved citron. 1-1/2 cups flour. 1-1/4 teaspoonfuls baking powder.  Several drops of almond flavoring.

Bake in a loaf in a moderate oven about 45 minutes after mixing ingredients together as for any ordinary cake.  This is a very good cake.

AUNT AMANDA’S SPICE “KUCHEN”

1 cup butter. 2 cups granulated sugar. 1 cup of a mixture of sour milk and cream. 4 eggs. 1 teaspoonful soda. 1/2 teaspoonful cloves. 1 teaspoonful cinnamon. 1/2 teaspoonful nutmeg. 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract. 2 tablespoonfuls cocoa. 3 cups flour.

Mix all like any ordinary cake.  From one-half this recipe was baked an ordinary sized loaf cake.

A GOOD, CHEAP CHOCOLATE CAKE

One cup of flour, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder and 1 cup of granulated sugar were sifted together.  Two eggs were broken into a cup, also 1 large tablespoonful of melted butter.  Fill up the cup with sweet milk, beat all ingredients well together.  Flavor with vanilla and add 2 extra tablespoonfuls of flour to the mixture.  Bake in two layer cake pans.

Place the following mixture between the two layers:  1/2 cup of grated chocolate, 1/2 cup sugar and 1/4 cup of liquid coffee.  Cook together a short time until the consistency of thick cream, then spread between layers.

AN ICE CREAM CAKE

Two cups of pulverized sugar, 1 cup of butter, 1 cup sweet milk, whites of 8 eggs, 1 teaspoonful soda, 2 teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, 3 cups of flour.  From same proportions of everything, only using the 8 yolks instead of whites of eggs, may be made a yellow cake, thus having two good sized layer cakes with alternate layers of white and yellow.  Put cakes together with white icing.  This was an old recipe of Aunt Sarah’s mother, used when cream of tartar and soda took the place of baking powder.

SMALL SPONGE CAKES

For these small cakes take 6 eggs, 1 cup of sugar and 3/4 cup of flour and 1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder, a pinch of salt, flavor with lemon.  Beat yolks of eggs separately, then add sugar and beat to a cream, then add the stiffly beaten whites of eggs alternately with the sifted flour and baking powder; add a pinch of salt and flavoring.  Bake in small muffin tins in a very moderate oven.

SMALL CAKES AND COOKIES—­“AUNT SARAH’S” LITTLE LEMON CAKES

2 cups granulated sugar. 3 eggs (not separated, but added one at a time to the sugar
        and shortening which had been creamed together).
1 scant cup butter and lard, mixed. 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder.  Pinch of salt 1 tablespoonful sweet milk.  Grated rind of 2 lemons and juice of one.