nty minutes before setting them in the oven.

201. _Rice Cake._

Mix ten ounces of ground rice, three of wheat flour, eight ounces of
powdered white sugar. Sift the whole by degrees into the beaten yelks
of eight eggs. Add the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, and
half a grated nutmeg. Bake the cake in deep pans as soon as the
ingredients are well mixed in. The cake will bake sufficiently in the
course of twenty minutes, if the oven is hot.

202. _Diet Bread._

Sift a pound of flour, mix it with a pound of rolled sugar. Beat eight
eggs to a froth, and stir the flour and sugar in very gradually. Season
it to the taste with essence of lemon or rosewater. Bake it from fifteen
to twenty minutes.

203. _Lemon Cake._

Stir together, till very white, a pound of sugar, half a pound of
butter--then add eight eggs, beaten to a froth, (the whites and yelks
should be beaten separately,) the grated rind of two lemons, and the
juice of half a lemon. Stir in gradually a pound of sifted flour. Line a
couple of cake pans with white buttered paper, turn the cake into them,
and bake it in a quick oven.

204. _Scotch Cake._

Stir to a cream a pound of sugar, and three-quarters of a pound of
butter--put in the juice and grated rind of a lemon, a wine glass of
brandy. Separate the whites and yelks of nine eggs, beat them to a
froth, and stir them into the cake--then add a pound of sifted flour,
and just before it is put in the cake pans, a pound of seeded raisins.

205. _Pound Cake._

Mix a pound of sugar with three-quarters of a pound of butter. When
worked white, stir in the yelks of eight eggs, beaten to a froth, then
the whites. Add a pound of sifted flour, and mace or nutmeg to the
taste. If you wish to have your cake particularly nice, stir in, just
before you put it into the pans, a quarter of a pound of citron, or
almonds blanched, and powdered fine in rosewater.

206. _Confectioner's Pound Cake._

Stir together a pound and a quarter of sugar, three quarters of a pound
of butter. When of a light color, stir in twelve beaten eggs, a pound
and a half of sifted flour, and mace or nutmeg to the taste.

207. _Queen's Cake._

Rub together, till very white, a pound of sugar, three quarters of a
pound of butter. Mix a wine glass of wine, one of brandy, one of milk,
and if you wish to have the cake look dark, put in a tea-spoonful of
saleratus. Stir them into the butter and sugar, together with a pou