d sugar, add flour sifted with baking
powder alternately with the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. The five
yolks of eggs left from baking white cake may be used when making
salad dressing. Use five yolks instead of three whole eggs, as called
for in recipe for salad dressing.

CHOCOLATE ICING (VERY GOOD)

One-quarter cup grated, unsweetened chocolate, 1/4 cup milk, half a
cup sugar. Boil all together until thick and creamy. This quantity
will be sufficient to ice the top of one ordinary cake. Spread icing
on cake before icing cools. When this icing is used for layer cake,
double the recipe.

TIP-TOP CAKE

1 lb. granulated sugar.
1 cup butter.
1 cup milk.
4 eggs.
1 lb. chopped raisins. (Citron may be used instead of raisins.)
1/2 a nutmeg, grated.
5 scant cups of flour.
5 teaspoonfuls baking powder.

Mix together same as ordinary cake and bake in a loaf. This Aunt
Sarah considered one of her finest cake recipes. She had used it for
years in her family. The friend who gave this recipe to Aunt Sarah
said: "A couple of tablespoonfuls of brandy will improve the cake."

ORANGE CAKE

Grate the yellow outside rind of 1 orange into a bowl. Add 1-1/2 cups
sugar and 3/4 cups butter and beat to a cream. Then add yolks of 3
eggs. Then stir in 1 cup milk, 2-1/2 cups flour with 2 heaping
teaspoonfuls baking powder. Lastly, add the stiffly beaten whites of 3
eggs. Bake in three layers.

FILLING.

Use the white of one egg, the grated rind and juice of large orange
and enough pulverized sugar to stiffen. Spread between layers.

CHEAP SPONGE CAKE

1-1/4 cups granulated sugar.
4 eggs.
1-1/2 cups flour.
4 tablespoonfuls boiling water.
1-1/4 teaspoonfuls baking powder.
Pinch of salt; flavor to suit taste.

Cream yolks and sugar thoroughly, then add the stiffly beaten whites
of eggs, then flour, then boiling water. Bake in a tube pan about 40
minutes. This is a very easily made cake, which seldom fails and was
bought with a set of "Van Dusen cake pans," which Aunt Sarah said:
"She'd used for many years and found invaluable."

CARAMEL CAKE AND ICING

1-1/2 cups pulverized sugar, 1 cup of butter, 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup of
corn starch, 2 teaspoons of baking powder sifted through flour and
corn starch, 1 cup of milk, the whites of 4 eggs. Mix like ordinary
cake. Bake as a loaf cake. Ice top the following: 1 cup of light brown
sugar, 1/4 cup milk, 1/2 tablespoonful of butter, 1/4 teaspoonful of
vanilla. Cook all