Lemon Cake. Mrs. T. H. Linsley
Three cups of powdered sugar, and one cup of butter rubbed to a cream. Stir in the yolks of five well-beaten eggs. Dissolve one teaspoon of salaratus in a teacup of milk; add this, and then the juice and grated rind of one lemon, and the whites of the eggs. Sift in as lightly as possible four teacups of flour, and put in pan. Bake about one-half hour.
MARBLE CAKE. MRS. C. H. WILLIAMS AND MRS. ELIZABETH McCURDY.
LIGHT PART.—One and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, one-half teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream tartar, whites of four eggs, two and one-half cups flour.
DARK PART.—One cup brown sugar, one cup molasses, one-half cup butter, one half cup milk, one-half teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream tartar, two and one-half cups flour, yolks of four eggs, one-half tablespoon each of ground cloves, allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
When both parts are ready, drop a spoon of light and then one of dark in the pan.