The new Kentucky home cook book

Take three-fourths cupful of butter, two cupfuls of powdered sugar, four cupfuls of flour, one cupful of sweet milk, five eggs beaten separately, one tea-spoonful of soda, two tea-spoonfuls of cream of tartar mashed and mixed well together. Stir thoroughly through the flour, cream butter, sugar, and yelks well together, add the milk and flour, beat well, then stir the whites through lightly. Bake in jellycake tins. Filling: Take the whites of three eggs beaten to a stiff froth, three cupfuls of sugar stirred well into the whites, with a pinch of tartaric acid. Spread this between the cakes. Mrs. C. E. Tabb. SPICE CAKE. Take the whites of twenty-four eggs, two pints of white sugar, one and one-fourth pint of butter, four pints of flour with one table-spoonful of flour taken out of each pint, one level tea-spoonful of baking-powder in each pint of flour. Sift the flour several times ; add one table-spoonful of cinnamon, one table-spoonful of allspice, one grated nutmeg. Mix the butter and sugar, and work until very light, then add the flour and whites last, Take one pint of the batter, stir in the above spices, have the mold greased and lined, put into the pint which is spiced three table-spoonfuls of cold The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. water, stir well, and drop this in with the white batter, and you have a delicious cake. Mrs. George Hamilton. SPICE CAKE. Take four eggs, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of sweet milk, two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder, three cupfuls of flour, one-half of a grated nutmeg. Divide the batter in half, and bake two cakes; to the other half add one teaspoouful of allspice, one tea-spoonful of cloves, one teaspoonful of cinnamon. Bake as the other half in layers. Lay one of each color with jelly between. Miss Jennie McCuleah. ELLIS CAKE. Take one cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, three eggs, one-half cupful of sweet milk, one tea-spoonful of baking-powder, two and one-half cupfuls flour. Flavor with vanilla. To be baked in muffin-rings. SEED CAKE. Take one and one-half pint of flour, one large cupful of sugar, three-fourths of a cupful of butter, one wine-glassful of water, one tea-spoonful of baking-powder, " and a large tea-spoonful of caraway-seed. Mix as you would for cup cake. SPICE CAKE. Take six eggs, one cupful of butter, three cupfuls of flour, one cupful of light brown sugar, one cupful of molasses, one table-spoonful of ginger, one table-spoonful of cinnamon, one table-spoonful of cloves, one table-spoonful of allspice, one grated nutmeg, one tea-spoonful of soda, two tea-spoonfuls of cream of tartar. HERD CAKE. Take four eggs beaten separately, one cupful of butter and two cupfuls of brown sugar creamed together, one-half cupful of molasses, four cupfuls of flour, one cupful of sour The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. milk, one tea-spoonful of soda, one tea-spoonful of cloves, one tea-spoonful of cinnamon, one tea-spoonful of allspice, one grated nutmeg, one pint of currants or raisins. Sprinkle flour over the fruit to prevent sinking to the bottom of the cake. Mrs. H. Bierbower.