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One pound flour, 1 pound sugar, 6 eggs, % pound butter, 2 pounds pecans, 2 pounds raisins, 2 nutmegs, 1 teaspoon baking powder, % cup cream, % ,pint wine, .% pint whisky. Bake in wellgreased mold for 4 hours. Flour fruit from the pound of flour. Snow Cake. One large coffee cup of butter, 2 cups of powdered sugar, 1 cup of sweet milk, 3 cups of flour, whites of 8 eggs well beaten, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of vanilla. This recipe can be used for a mold or a filling cake. Nut Cake. One cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour, 4 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 2 pints of pecans and 1J4 pounds of raisins. Vanilla Wafers. Four ounces of powdered sugar and 4 ounces of butter rubbed to a cream, stir in 1 egg, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, 3 tablespoons of milk and 4 ounces of sifted flour. Drop by spoonful on greased tin. Orange Teacakes. One cup of butter, 4 eggs, 2 cups of sugar ; take the sugar first and squeeze juice of 1 orange over it, then cream, sugar and butter together ; add a little nutmeg. Break the eggs into the sugar and butter ; sift 3 teaspoons of yeast powder into 3 pints of flour, then sift flour into the batter, stir until stiff. Add more flour and knead with the hands. Roll out and cut with cake-cutter. White Heather Cake. One cup granulated sugar, % cup of butter, % cup cold water, 1% cups flour, 1 teaspoon extract of almond, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 3 eggs. Mix as usual and bake in jelly tins in a hot oven. Filling for Cake. Boil 1^ cups granulated sugar with 6 tablespoons of water until it threads. Have white of 1 egg beaten to a froth and pour, the syrup slowly into it, beating all the time with a wire whisk. Flavor witli extract of almond. Spread between layers of cake while warm and sprinkle each layer thickly with dessicated cocoanut. Ice the top and sprinkle cocoanut over the whole cake. Mocha Cake. One cup granulated sugar, % cup of butter, 1% cups flour, yolks of 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ^ cup new milk, a dash of salt. Cream butter, add sugar, yolks, milk, salt and flour, with baking powder, and the whites beaten to a froth, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla or lemon juice. Butter a papered tin and sprinkle with an equal quantity of sugar and flour. Cream of Almond Cake. One cup of butter creamed, 3 coffee cups of pulverized sugar, 4 cups of flour, ^ cup of water, whites of 11 eggs, 1 heaping teaspoon of baking powder. Work butter and sugar to a cream, add water, then flour and eggs alternately, baking powder last, with 1 cup of flour and eggs, 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Bake in jelly cake pans. Cream Filling. One pint of sweet cream, whipped to a froth, sweeten it with 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar, add % teaspoon of vanilla. Have 2 pounds of almonds blanched, chopped fine, stir them lightly into ^ the cream. Have a few cut in half to decorate the top and side of cake. Zollicoffer Cake. One cup of butter, 2 cups of sugar, 4 cups of flour, 1 cup of milk, whites of 6 eggs, 2 level teaspoons of baking powder, any preferred flavor. , Bake in layers. The Filling — ^Whites of 3 eggs beaten stiff, 3 cups of fine granulated sugar. Pour 1 cup of boiling water over sugar and cook like y candy and pour on the eggs, stirring all the while. Add to the icing 1 cup of chopped raisins, 1 cup of chopped nuts (any kind), 4 or 5 figs (cut in thin strips), and put on between layers and on top of the cake. Almondines. Whites of 2 eggs, 2 ounces of almonds blanched and chopped fine, % cup of powdered sugar. Beat eggs until stiff, add sugar gradually, then almonds. Have pastry rolled thin and cut in strips 3 inches long and 1% inches wide. Spread this mixture on center of pastry, dust with powdered sugar and bake in moderate oven 15 minutes. Pecan Cake.