Mother Hubbard's cupboard

One cup sugar, two tablespoons butter, one cup flour, four eggs, one teaspoon baking powder. Bake in two layers. FILLING. Whites of five eggs, fifteen tablespoons sugar ; add grated cocoanut. Spread between and on top of layers. Mrs. A. S. Mann. ORANGE CAKE. Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three cups flour, five eggs (yolks of two and whites of five) ; three teaspoons baking powder, two oranges (grated peel and juice of one). Bake in four layers. FILLING. Whites of three eggs, juice of one orange, fifteen tablespoons of sugar. Beat together, spread between layers and outside of cake. Pare and pull in small pieces two oranges ; put on top of cake. Belle. WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE. One cup sugar, one-half cup of butter, one half cup sweet milk, one-half cup corn starch, one cup flour, whites of six eggs, a little vanilla, two teaspoons baking powder. Bake in layers. FROSTING FOR ABOVE. Whites of five eggs, twenty tablespoons sifted sugar, beaten very light ; a little vanilla. Spread between layers and outside of cake. 68 "Mother Hubbard's Cupboard." PICKLES, CANNED FRUIT, Etc. CUCUMBER PICKLES. Make a weak brine, hot or cold ; if hot, let the cucumbers stand in it twenty-four hours, if cold forty-eight hours ; rinse, and dry the cucumbers with a cloth, take vinegar enough to cover them, allow one ounce of alum to every gallon of vinegar, put it in a brass kettle with the cucumbers and heat slowly, turning the cucumbers from the bottom frequently; as soon as they are heated through skim them out into a crock, let the vinegar boil up, turn it over the pickles and let them stand at least twenty-four hours ; drain off the vinegar. Take fresh vinegar, and to every gallon allow two tablespoons of white mustard seed, one of cloves, one of celery seed, one of stick cinnamon, one large green pepper, a very little horse radish, and if you like one-half pint sugar. Divide the spices equally into several small bags of coarse muslin, scald with the vinegar and pour over the pickles. If you like your pickles hard, let the vinegar cool before pouring over them. PICKLED CUCUMBERS. FOR ONE THOUSAND. Sprinkle salt and pour boiling water over for three successive days, then prepare vinegar as follows : One-fourth pound whole cloves, one-fourth pound cinnamon, one-fourth pound allspice, one fourth pound black pepper, one-fourth pound white mustard, alum size of an egg, one pound brown sugar, a little horse radish root. Boil with vinegar ten minutes and pour over pickles ; put the spices in a bag or leave loose in vinegar, as you choose. M. C. Pickles, Canned Fruit, &c. 69 CUCUMBER PICKLES. SIX HUNDRED CUCUMBERS.