rown sugar
1 cup sweet milk
3 large tablespoons butter

Boil until it will make a ball in cold water. Then beat until thick
enough to spread on cake. Flavor with vanilla.

Filling for Cake

3 grated apples
1 cup sugar
1 egg

Juice and grated rind of an orange or lemon. Let it come to a boil.

Delicious Nut Cake

Old English Recipe, year 1600

Coffee cup is used for measure.

2 cups of sugar rolled fine or sifted
1 cup of butter--creamed together
3 cups of flour--sifted 4 times
1 cup of cold water
4 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately
2 large cups of walnut chopped or rolled
2 teaspoons of cream of tartar--level measure

Cream butter and sugar, stir in yolks, beat hard for 5 minutes, add
water, then flour, mix the tartar in it--then nuts, then beaten whites
of eggs. Bake 3/4 of an hour if loaf, or half hour if divided into two
portions or layers.

Icing

4 cups sugar
1/2 pint hot water
4 eggs beaten
citric acid about size of pea
vanilla

Boil water and sugar until it threads. Pour over the beaten whites of 4
eggs. Beat until almost cold then add citric acid dissolved in one
teaspoon boiling water, flavor with vanilla and spread between layers
and over cake.

This keeps a long time in a locked closet.

Cookery has become an art, a noble science; cooks
are gentlemen. Burton.

Christmas Cakes

1/2 lb. Butter
6 Eggs
1 lb. Powdered Sugar
Flour enough to roll
Beat eggs separate

Cream butter; add sugar. Separate eggs; beat and add. Then flour to
roll.

Cocoanut Tarts

7 eggs (whites)
1 lb. sugar (pulverized)
1/2 lb. butter
1 cocoanut

Grate the cocoanut, beat the butter and sugar to a cream; beat the eggs
until very dry and light; mix well together and bake on pie crusts
rolled very thin. This amount will make four large tarts.

Suffrage Angel Cake

(a la Kennedy)

11 eggs
1 full cup Swansdown Flour (after sifting)
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 heaping teaspoon cream of tartar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 pinch of salt

Beat the eggs until light--not stiff; sift sugar 7 times, add to eggs,
beating as little as possi