GRANDMOTHER'S BREAD CAKE.

From MRS. MARY C. BELL, of Florida, Lady Manager.

Three cups sugar, one cup butter, three eggs, one bowlful stoned
raisins, floured, one teaspoonful allspice, ground, one teaspoonful
cloves, ground, one tablespoonful cinnamon, ground. When well mixed
add three cups of bread sponge before the flour is added for kneading;
stir well and then add flour until as stiff as can be easily stirred;
half fill two medium-sized pans and stand in a warm place till light
and bake in a moderate oven.


OLD VIRGINIA BREAD CAKE.

From MRS. KATHERINE S. G. PAUL, of Virginia, Lady Manager.

One and one-half pounds flour; one pound white sugar; ten ounces of
butter; one-half teacup sweet milk; one-half teacup good yeast; four
eggs; one cup of currants and seed-less raisins, chopped and mixed
together; one teaspoonful each mace and cinnamon and a little
allspice; work butter and sugar together; sift flour into a bowl; stir
in milk and yeast with one-half the creamed butter and sugar; beat
hard and long until very light; set to rise in a moderately warm place
over night. In the morning, if it be well risen, work in the remainder
of the butter and sugar and the eggs; dredge the fruit with flour and
beat in a little at a time with the spice; beat for fully five
minutes; divide and put into two pans to rise. The second rising
generally requires about three hours. When the dough is very light
bake in a moderate oven. When carefully made this cake is very fine.


BREAD CAKE.

From MRS. CLARA L. MCADOW. of Montana, Lady Manager.

Three cups of very light dough, three cups sugar, one cup butter,
three eggs, one nutmeg, one teaspoonful cinnamon, raisins, a teaspoon
of salaratus dissolved in a little hot water.


CORN STARCH CAKE.

One cup butter, two cups sugar, one teaspoon cream tartar, one-half
teaspoon soda, two cups flour, one cup corn starch, four eggs, one cup
milk.


EXPOSITION ORANGE CAKE.

From MRS. S. E. VERDENAL, of New York, Lady Manager-at-Large.

Two cups sugar, two cups of sifted flour, one-half cup of water, two
teaspoonfuls yeast powder mixed with the flour, the yolks of five eggs
and the whites of three beaten separately, the grating and juice of
one orange; bake in layers like jelly cake.

_Filling_--One cup sugar, grating and juice one orange, whites of
two eggs beaten into a froth.


ORANGE CAKE.

From MRS. FRANCES WELLES SHEPARD, of Chicago, Lady Manager.

_I send you with pleasure the enclosed recipe for Orange Cake. I
have used it for twenty-five years and know it to be excellent.
Wishing you all success in your kind efforts. Believe me, Yours very
truly,_

One coffeecup sugar, one-half coffeecup butter, two coffeecups flour,
one-half coffeecup milk, yolks of four eggs, whites of two eggs, two
teaspoons of baking powder; bake in four layer tins. For the filling,
grate the yellow part of the rind of two oranges and mix it with the
juice and one coffeecup of powdered sugar; spread, this mixture
between the cakes; frost the cake, using the two remaining whites of
eggs beaten thoroughly, adding two small cups of powdered sugar.


ANGEL FOOD.

From MRS. MARY C. HARRISON, of Wyoming, Lady Manager.

The whites of fifteen eggs; one and one-half cups of powdered sugar;
one cup of flour; one teaspoon of cream of tartar; sift sugar three
times; mix cream of tartar with flour, sift seven times; beat eggs
stiff, add sugar gradually, beating all the time with egg beater; take
out; stir the flour quickly with wooden spoon; do not grease or line
the tin; bake slowly and steadily; turn out on platter for frosting.


ANGEL CAKE.

From MRS. DANIEL HALL, of New Hampshire, Lady Manager.

The whites of eleven eggs beaten to a stiff froth; add one and one-
half cups of pulverized sugar and one teaspoonful of vanilla extract;
take one even cup of flour and one teaspoonful cream of tartar and
sift with flour four times; beat lightly but thoroughly; bake fifty
minutes in an ungreased pan; cut out when cold.


SUNSHINE CAKE.

Yolks of eleven eggs, two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of
milk, one teaspoonful cream tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda,
three cups of sifted flour, one teaspoonful of vanilla.



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