vement, and a
great authority in culinary matters suggests the addition of a little
cayenne pepper in gingerbread. Whether it be advisable to use this
latter ingredient or not, we leave our readers to decide.

_Time_.--20 minutes to 1/2 hour. _Average cost_, 1s. to 1s. 4d. per lb.

_Seasonable_ at any time.

WHITE GINGERBREAD.

1762. INGREDIENTS.--1 lb. of flour, 1/2 lb. of butter, 1/2 lb. of loaf
sugar, the rind of 1 lemon, 1 oz. of ground ginger, 1 nutmeg grated, 1/2
teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, 1 gill of milk.

_Mode_.--Rub the butter into the flour; add the sugar, which should be
finely pounded and sifted, and the minced lemon-rind, ginger, and
nutmeg. Mix these well together; make the milk just warm, stir in the
soda, and work the whole into a nice smooth paste; roll it out, cut it
into cakes, and bake in a moderate oven from 15 to 20 minutes.

_Time_.--15 to 20 minutes. _Average cost_, 1s. 3d.

_Seasonable_ at any time.

GOOD HOLIDAY CAKE.

1763. INGREDIENTS.--1-1/2d. worth of Borwick's German baking-powder, 2
lbs. of flour, 6 oz. of butter, 1/4 lb. of lard, 1 lb. of currants, 1/2
lb. of stoned and cut raisins, 1/4 lb. of mixed candied peel, 1/2 lb. of
moist sugar, 3 eggs, 3/4 pint of cold milk.

_Mode_.--Mix the baking-powder with the flour; then rub in the butter
and lard; have ready the currants, washed, picked, and dried the raisins
stoned and cut into small pieces (not chopped), and the peel cut into
neat slices. Add these with the sugar to the flour, &c., and mix all the
dry ingredients well together. Whisk the eggs, stir to them the milk,
and with this liquid moisten the cake; beat it up well, that all may be
very thoroughly mixed; line a cake-tin with buttered paper, put in the
cake, and bake it from 2-1/4 to 2-3/4 hours in a good oven. To ascertain
when it is done, plunge a clean knife into the middle of it, and if, on
withdrawing it, the knife looks clean, and not sticky, the cake is done.
To prevent its burning at the top, a piece of clean paper may be put
over whilst the cake is soaking, or being thoroughly cooked in the
middle. A steamer, such as is used for steaming potatoes, makes a very
good cake-tin, if it be lined at the bottom and sides with buttered
paper.

_Time_.--2-1/4 to 2-3/4 hours. _Average cost_, 2s. 6d.

_Seasonable_ at any time.

LEMON CAKE.

1764. INGREDIENTS.--10 eggs, 3 tablespoonfuls of orange-flower water,
3/4 lb. of pounded loaf sugar, 1 lemon, 3/4 lb