Delicate dishes

Beat y^ cup of butter and i^ of sugar to a cream, add y^ cup of milk and 2 of flour, into which has been sifted i^ teaspoonfuls of Cameo baking powder. Flavor and add i tumbler of nut meats. Mrs. a. G. Jones. WHITE FRUIT CAKE. Beat to a cream i cup of butter, add 2 cups of pulverized sugar; beat well. Sift into 3 cups of flour 2 tea spoonfuls of Cameo baking powder, add to the creamed butter and sugar, alternately, with the beaten whites of 6 eggs. Bake in jelly cake tins and while hot put between the layers the following filling: Chop fine y^ pound each of figs, seeded raisins, citron, blanched almonds, and stir them into 3 whites of eggs, well beaten, i teacup of powdered sugar and the juice of i lemon. Ice the whole with i white of egg, well beaten with the juice of ^ a lemon and i cup of powdered sugar. Mrs. D. H. Champlin. ANGEL FOOD FRUIT CAKE. Use any angel food recipe and bake in jelly tins, not greased. Filling: One-fourth pound candied pineapple and cherries, the pineapple sliced very thin and the cherries halved. Make a boiled icing, flavor with lemon; spread over the cake and lay the fruit upon it. Mrs. Morehouse. WHITE CAKE. Cream i cup of butter with 2 of sugar, add i of milk and I cup of flour, not sifted. Beat the whites of 7 eggs and add ji to the mixture, then i cup of flour with I teaspoonful of Cameo baking powder mixed in it, and another ^ of the egg, then mix in lightly the remainder of the egg and another cup of flour. Flavor and bake in a moderate oven. Mrs. Florence Chapman. ORANGE CAKE. Cream i cup of butter with 2 of sugar. Mix 3 even [illustration: Valentine & Company trade mark] teaspoonfuls of Cameo baking powder with 4 scant cups of sifted flour, add i cup of milk and the whites of 8 eggs, stiffly beaten. FILLING. Boil until quite thick the juice of 4 oranges, i^ lemons, 8 egg yolks and 3^ pound of sugar rubbed together. Just before removing from the fire add the whites of 4 eggs, well beaten. Let it cool and spread between the layers. Cover with boiled icing and ornament with slices of thinly cut orange. Miss Knapp. BANBURY CAKES. Cut very fine ^ pound fresh candied orange peel, J^ pound candied lemon peel, i pound currants, % ounce cinnamon, 3^ ounce allspice, ^ pound butter, creamed; mix these ingredients well together and keep in glass jar. Make a rich pie crust of i heaping tablespoonful lard, 3 of flour, a teaspoonful salt, blend with icewater, not too wet; cut from this paste round pieces as large as a saucer, put a large teaspoonful of the above mixture in the middle, fold over and pinch the edges together; turn them over, brush with the whites of eggs and dust fine granulated sugar over them. Bake in moderate oven. Mrs. Ben Williams. CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE. One pound butter, i pound sugar, i pound flour, 10 common sized eggs or 12 small ones, 2 pounds raisins (stoned), 2 pounds currants, 2 pounds citron (chopped fine), I cup molasses, i large glass of wine (sherry); spices to the taste. Mrs. E. C. Long. BLACKBERRY JAM CAKE.