11th.  If browning too quickly, cover with brown paper and reduce the heat gradually.  This is usually necessary in baking fruit cake. 12th.  Mix cake in an earthen bowl, never in tin. 13th.  Soda, cream of tartar, and baking powder should be crushed and sifted with the flour.  Always attend to the fire before beginning to make cake.  Coarse granulated sugar makes a coarse, heavy cake.  If cake browns before rising the oven is too hot.  When it rises in the centre and cracks open it is too stiff with flour.  It should rise first round the edge, then in the middle and remain level.

GINGERBREAD.

1 cup molasses. 2 tbsps. butter. 1 tsp. ginger. 1 pint flour. 1/2 cup sour milk. 1 tsp. soda. 1 egg.

Put the molasses and butter in a pan and set on the stove.  When the mixture boils up add the soda and ginger, and take from the fire immediately.  Add the milk, the well-beaten egg and the flour, beat well.  Bake in a shallow cake pan in a rather quick oven for 20 minutes.

SPICE CAKE.

1/4 cup butter. 1/2 cup molasses. 1/2 cup sour milk. 1/2 ssp. salt. 1/2 tsp. soda.  The juice and rind of 1/2 lemon. 1/2 cup sugar. 2-1/2 cups flour. 1/2 tsp. ginger. 1 tsp. cinnamon. 1/4 nutmeg, grated. 1 egg.

Beat the butter to a cream.  Gradually beat into it the sugar, then the spice and lemon, next the molasses.  Now dissolve the soda in one tbsp. cold water and stir it into the sour milk; add this, and the egg well beaten, to the other ingredients.  Lastly add the flour, and beat briskly for 1/2 minute.  Pour into a well buttered pan and bake in a moderate oven for about 50 minutes.

SPONGE CAKE.

3 eggs. 2/3 cup flour. 2/3 cup pulverized sugar.  The grated rind and juice of 1/2 lemon.

Beat the yolks of the eggs and sugar until very light, now add the juice and rind of the lemon and half the flour; beat the whites to a very stiff froth, add the remainder of the flour and the whites alternately, stirring lightly, pour into a greased cake pan.  Bake in a quick oven from 25 to 30 minutes.

ROLL JELLY CAKE.

2 eggs. 1 cup sugar. 1-1/2 cup flour. 1/2 tsp. salt. 1 cup sweet milk. 3 (l.) tsps. baking powder.

Beat the eggs separately till very light, then beat them together, add the sugar, then the milk gradually, then the flour in which the salt and baking powder have been mixed.  Spread very thin on long shallow pans.  Spread with jelly while warm and roll up.

SEED CAKE.

1 cup butter. 1 cup milk. 2 tsps. caraway seeds. 3 tsps. baking powder. 1-1/2 cup sugar. 3 eggs. 3 cups flour.

Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually, then the yolks of the eggs, then the seeds; sift the baking powder with the flour; add the flour and milk alternately a little at a time, lastly the whites which have been beaten stiff and dry; bake from 40 to 50 minutes.