and one
teaspoonful of soda. Spice to taste. This is a good cake and one which
is also inexpensive in baking. Use a moderate oven and bake in loaves
rather than sheets.

~BALTIMORE CAKE~--Beat one cupful of butter to a cream, using a wood
cake spoon. Add gradually while beating constantly two cupfuls fine
granulated sugar. When creamy add a cupful of milk, alternating with
three and one-half cupfuls pastry flour that has been mixed and sifted
with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Add a teaspoonful of vanilla and
the whites of six eggs beaten stiff and dry. Bake in three buttered and
floured shallow cake tins, and spread between the layers and on top the
following icing: Put in a saucepan three cups sugar, one cup water. Heat
gradually to the boiling point, and cook without stirring until the
syrup will thread. Pour the hot syrup gradually over the well beaten
whites of three eggs and continue beating until of the right consistency
for spreading. Then add one cupful chopped and seeded raisins, one cup
chopped pecan meats and five figs cut in strips.

~BALTIMORE CAKE--~For this cake use one cupful butter, two cupfuls
sugar, three and one-half cupfuls flour, one cupful sweet milk, two
teaspoonfuls baking powder, the whites of six eggs and a teaspoonful of
rose water. Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually, beating steadily,
then the milk and flavoring, next the flour sifted with the baking
powder, and lastly the stiffly beaten whites folded in at the last. Bake
in three layer cake tins in an oven hotter than for loaf cake. While
baking prepare the filling. Dissolve three cupfuls sugar in one cupful
boiling water, and cook until it spins a thread. Pour over the stiffly
beaten whites of three eggs, stirring constantly. Add to this icing one
cupful chopped raisins, one cupful chopped nut meats, preferably pecans
or walnuts, and a half dozen figs cut in fine strips. Use this for
filling and also ice the top and sides with it.

~BREAD CAKE--~Cream one cup of sugar and one-half cup of butter, add
one-half cup of milk, two cups of flour sifted with three teaspoons of
baking powder and last the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs and half
a teaspoon of vanilla flavoring. Bake in one loaf.

~BRIDE'S CAKE--~One and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one-half cupful of
butter, one-half cupful of sweet milk, two cupfuls of flour, one-quarter
cupful cornstarch, six egg whites, one and one-half teaspoonfuls baking
powder, one t