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3. Golden. Cream three-fourths cup butter and one and one-half cups sugar together, add yolks of eight eggs, one whole egg beaten till thick, one-half cup milk, two cups of flour sifted with one and one-half teaspoons cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda, two teaspoons brandy, one cup chopped nuts slightly floured. Bake in individual pans; frost with golden frosting made as follows: — One yolk beaten slightly, one teaspoon wine; confectioners* sugar to make it stiff enough to spread. Orange. Cream three-fourths cup butter, add slowly two cups sugar, and cream together; into three cups sifted pastry flour mix two teaspoons baking powder; add one tablespoon of the prepared flour to the butter and sugar, then add four eggs, one at a time without first beating, with a tablespoon of the flour before breaking in each egg; then add the remainder of the flour alternating with one cupful of milk. Flavor with orange. Bake about forty minutes in a moderate oven. Orange Frosting: — Yolk of one egg, extract of orange, enough confectioners' sugar to make it thick enough to spread. Plain Raisin. One-half cup molasses, one cup sugar, one half cup butter, one-half cup sour milk, teaspoon soda, two eggs; three cups flour. Raisins and spice. Piccolomini. Three cups sugar, one cup butter, rub to a cream; beat five eggs very light, and stir gradually into the mixture together with four full cups flour and one of sweet milk. Dissolve in a little warm water half teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream tartar, add nutmeg and wine glass rose water. Pound. Rub one pound sugar and three-quarters pound butter to a cream, add the well beaten yolks of ten eggs, then the whites, and stir in gradually a pound of sifted flour. Quick Cream Pie. Beat the whites of two eggs with one-half cup sugar, add the beaten yolks, two-thirds cup flour, one-half teaspoon cream tartar, one-fourth teaspoon soda (or one teaspoon baking powder). Bake in a round tin. Inside: — One-half pint milk, one egg, one-half cup sugar, one-fourth cup flour; cook until thick and flavor as preferred. Raised Loaf. One cup sugar (heaping), one-half cup butter, one egg, small piece of soda dissolved in a teaspoon of warm water, mace, cinnamon and nutmeg, two cups raised bread dougfi, one cup stoned raisins. Let it rise three hours before baking. Rice Flour. One cup butter, one cup sugar, five eggs, two cups rice flour. Rockland. One cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup milk, five eggs, half teaspoon soda, teaspoon cream tartar, four cups flour. Makes two loaves. Sally Jewett. Three-quarters pound sugar, onehalf pound butter, one cup molasses, one cup milk, five eggs, one pound flour, heaping teaspoon soda, one pound raisins, two tablespoons each cloves and cinnamon, one nutmeg, currants, citron, wine glass brandy. Silver. Two cups of sugar, two and one-half cups flour, one-half cup butter, three-quarters cup milk, whites of eight eggs, teaspoon cream tartar, half teaspoon soda. Almond essence and chocolate frosting. 2. One and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup butter, three-fourths cup sweet milk, two cups flour, one teaspoon cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda, whites of four eggs, well beaten; flavor with vanilla; bake in a slow oven. Snow. One pound of sugar, three-quarters pound butter, one pound flour, whites of sixteen eggs, lemon or rose water. Spice. One cup butter, one and a half cups sugar, two-thirds cup milk, three eggs, three cups flour. one teaspoon each kind of spice, one cup raisins, one teaspoon soda, citron and currants if you choose. Bake in roll pans. Sponge. One cup sugar, one cup flour, four eggs, half teaspoon soda sifted in dr>'.