s, and put together with orange
frosting made thus. Cook together till it threads the strained juice,
and grated yellow peel of a large sweet orange with one cup sugar, then
beat the hot syrup into two egg-whites whipped as stiff as possible.
Beat smooth and spread while hot.

_Dream Cakes_: Cream well half a cup butter, add a cup and a half of
sugar, half a cup cold water, two cups flour sifted twice with two
teaspoonfuls baking powder, a teaspoonful lemon extract, and the stiffly
beaten whites of six eggs. Bake in small shapes, frost, with boiled
frosting, and ornament with tiny pink candies.

_Shrewsbury Cakes_: This receipt with two that follow, comes down from:
"The spacious days of great Elizabeth." They are given verbatim, from
the original version, as it seems to me the flavor of the language must
add to the flavor of the cakes. "Mix half a pound of butter, well beat
like cream, with the same weight of flour, one egg, six ounces of beaten
and sifted loaf sugar, and half an ounce of caraway seed. Form these
into a paste, roll them thin, and lay them in sheets of tin, then bake
them in a slow oven."

_Queen Cakes_: "Take a pound of sugar, beat and sift it, a pound of well
dried flour, a pound of butter, eight eggs, and half a pound of
currants, washed and picked; grate a nutmeg and an equal quantity of
mace and cinnamon, work the butter to a cream, put in the sugar, beat
the whites of the eggs twenty minutes and mix them with the butter and
sugar. Then beat the yolks for half an hour, and put them to the butter.
Beat the whole together and when it is ready for the oven, put in the
flour, spices and currants, sift a little sugar over them, and bake them
in tins."

_Banbury Cakes_: "Take a pound of dough, made for white bread, roll it
out and put bits of butter upon the same as for puff paste, till a pound
of the same has been worked in; roll it out very thin, then cut it into
bits of an oval size, according as the cakes are wanted. Mix some good
moist sugar with a little brandy, sufficient to wet it, then mix some
clean-washed currants with the former, put a little upon each bit of
paste, close them up, and put the side that is closed next the tin they
are to be baked upon. Lay them separate, and bake them moderately, and
afterward, when taken out, sift sugar over them. Some candied peel may
be added, or a few drops essence of lemon."

_Oatmeal Cookies_: (Mrs. T. G. Petre.) Beat together until creamy, one
egg