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Orange Loaf Cake, — Grate rinds of two oranges, then press out juice with lemon squeezer and mix with rind, let stand three quarters of airhour, rub with back of spoon and strain ; add two-thirds pint pulverized sugar and beat well. With this, cream half pint butter and add well heaten yolks ©f five eggs, alternately with a scant pint of flour, a little of each at a time ; beat till very, very light, then add well frothed whites, pour in a pan or mold and bake in a quick oven, covering with paper first fifteen minutes. When done ice with orange icing. This cake is at its prime the day it is baked. Use lemons instead of oranges for a delicious Lemon Cake, Marble Cake. — Dark part: Yolks three eggs, one-half cup butter, one cup brown sugar, one tablespoon molasses, one-half cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, one and one-third cups fiour, spices to taste and one cup raisins and currants, or leave out spices and frui( and use three tablespoons grated chocolate. Light part : whites three eggs, one-half cup corn starch, one cup white sugar, one-half cup each sweet milk and butter, one cup flour, one teaspoon baking powder. Alternate the light and dark parts by spoonfuls or layei*s, or both, in tin before baking. Moonlight Cake. — Cream half pint soft butter with two-thirds pint sugar ; add gill milk and gently stir in well-beaten whites of nine eggs ; mix thoroughly heaping pint flour, one-third pint corn starch and two teaspoons baking powder and sift twice ; add to above, and when well mixed add two teaspoons vanilla sugar and half teaspoon extract of almond. The vanilla sugar may be omitted using double quantity extract. Peanut Cake. — One-half cup butter, one and one-half cups milk, two and one-half cups flour, whites four eggs, one half teaspoon cream tartar, one-quarter teaspoon soda ; just before putting into oven sprinkle over top one cup peanuts broken into pieces. Plum Cake. — Cut one pound butter in small pieces and work into two and one-half pounds flour with half a nutmeg, grated, and two pounds currants, picked ^^^_^^^_^ and washed. Add one pound sugar and six yolks eggs rubbed together, one-half pint each yeast and cream and work to a smooth batter. Pound one half pound shelled and blanched almonds with a little rose water to a paste and add with one-fourth pound citron. Poor Man's Cake. — ^Three cups bread dough, two cups sugar, one of butter, two eggs, mix well, put in spice to taste, and fruit if preferred. Let rise and bake in brisk oven. Do not use any flour. Pound Cake. — Pound each butter, sugar and flour, ten eggs beaten separately, and juice and grated rind of one lemon prepared as in Lemon Sponge Cake. For Measured Pound Cake take pint butter, one and one-third pint pulverized sugar and quart flour mixed with other ingredients as above, Cocoanut Pound Cake. — Cream together one and one-third pints of sugar and one pint of butter, add one tablespoon orange-flower water and three of rose-water ; beat in one-fourth pound of "flour and work to a smooth paste. Add gradually the whites of nine eggs beaten to a stiff froth, and one pint flour, (oue half at a time), stir-