The Henderson cook book

One cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon of ground cloves, 1 teaspoon ground allspice, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 cup cold boiled coffee, 2 cups of flour with 2 teaspoons of Royal baking powder sifted with the flour. Cream together butter and sugar, adding eggs 1 at a time. Beat well, add spices and coffee, then add flour and ibake. — Miss Sarah Edwards. FEATHER CAKE. One and one-fourth cups granulated sugar, 2-3 cup Snowdrift, 1 level teaspoon salt, 4 eggs, y2 cup water, 2y2 cups sifted flour, 2 rounding teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon extract. Mix sugar and Snowdrift well together and add salt ; beat the eggs in 1 at a time, beating well after each egg is added ; next add the water, then sift in the flour, which has been previously sifted twice, adding the baking powder as you sift the flour into the batter ; beat until perfectly smooth. Bake in 2 layers in moderate oven. Put together with any filling desired. PINEAPPLE CAKE. One cup butter, 2 cups sugar creamed together, yolks of 4 eggs, 1 cup milk or water, then add beaten whites of 4 eggs, 3 cups flour, 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder. Filling. — "Whites of 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons sugar, 1 15-cent can pineapple. — Mrs. W. E. Moss. Whites of 7 eggs, 2 cups sugar, 2-3 cup butter, ^ cup sweet milk, 3 cups flour (measured after sifting), 3 heaping teaspoons of Royal baking powder. Flavor with vanilla. — Mrs. Alex. Cheek. Three cups of sugar, 1 of butter, 1 of milk, 3 of flour, 1 of corn starch, 12 eggs (whites) well beaten, 1/2 teaspoon Royal baking powder. Dissolve corn starch in part of milk and sugar, stirred to a cream, then add the flour, then the remainder of the milk, then whites of eggs ; flavor with bitter almond. (1) Bake in 4 layers, use icing and nuts for filling (almonds) 1 layer; (2) 1 cocoanut, grated, juice of 1 orange — 1 layer; (3) 1 cup raisins, dash of chocolate — 1 layer; (4) 1 cup nuts, 1 cup citron; (5) 4 cups of sugar, the whites of 4 eggs. Take sugar, 1 cup water and let it boil until you can string it (don't stir) ; whip whites and beat in the boiling sugar until cool. — Mrs. 0. N. McDowell. YELLOW CAKE. Yolks of 8 eggs, 2 cups sugar, 2-3 of a cup of butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 3y2 cups of flour (measured after sifting), 3 teaspoons of Royal baking powder. — Mrs. Alex. Cheek. FIG CAKE. Two-thirds cup butter, 2 cups sugar, y2 cup milk, iy2 teaspoons Royal baking powder sifted with 3 cups flour, whites of 8 eggs; flavor with vanilla. Bake in 2 layers. Dark part. — One-half cup butter, 1 cup sugar, y2 cup milk, 1 teaspoon Royal baking powder sifted in 1% cups flour, yolks of 7 eggs and 1 whole egg, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon of allspice. Put half of dark in pan, lay on 1 pound halved figs (floured), put on remainder of dark batter and bake. Put white and dark together with white frosting. — Mrs. C. M. Cooper. COCOANUT CAKE. One-half pound sugar, milk of 1 cocoanut and tablespoon of butter. Boil until thick syrup ; pour over grated cocoanut and spread between layers of sponge cake. Two large cocoanuts or 3 small ones. Leave some cocoanut to sprinkle on cake after it has been iced with boiled icing made of 2 cups of sugar boiled till it ropes and poured over the well-beaten whites of 2 eggs. — Mrs. C. M. Cooper.