How we cook in Tennessee ..

White Cake. — Three cups flour, two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup boiling water, one teaspoon baking powder. Cream butter, add sugar, then the flour. Dissolve baking powder in the boiling water, holding it over the cake bowl, so it will not be lost as it effervesces. Stir it in the batter, and add the well beaten whites last. The grain of this cake is more like angel food, and will remain moist longer than if milk were used. — Mrs. J. T. Newsom. Ice Cream Cake. — Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour and one of corn starch, whites of eight eggs, two teaspoons baking powder; flavor to taste. — Mrs. B. P. Cantrell. Molasses Spice Cake. — One dozen eggs, one pound of butter, one pound of sugar, a pint of molasses, two pounds of flour, a wine glassful of spices, and a teaspoonful of soda. Mix like pound cake. — Gulf City Cook Book. Spice Cake. — Two cups brown sugar, half cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three cups flour, yolks five eggs, one nutmeg, four teaspoons cinnamon, two of cloves, two of baking powder. Use the whites for icing. — Mrs. Lee Agnew. Spice Cake. — Whites sixteen eggs, six cups flour, four cups sugar, two cups butter, one cup buttermilk, two teaspoons baking powder. Dark Part. — Yolks eight eggs, three cups flour, one cup molasses, half cup butter, half cup buttermilk, half teaspoon baking powder, spices. Half of this recipe makes a medium size cake. — Mrs. W. H. Wilson. Spice Cake. — Two cups brown sugar, half cup butter, one cup milk, three cups flour, yolks five eggs, one nutmeg, two teaspoons cinnamon, two spice, two of cloves, two baking powder. Use whites for icing. — Mrs. Lee Agnew. Spice Cake. — Three eggs, one cup of butter, three cups of sugar, four of flour, one of milk, one teaspoonful of yeast powder, one tablespoonful of allspice, ginger, cloves, cinnamon and half a nutmeg. — Gulf City Cook Book. Cheap Cake. — One egg, one cup sugar, two cups flour, one spoon butter, one teaspoon baking powder. — Mrs. Ed. Mercer. Everyday Cake. — Half cup butter creamed with three cups sugar, one cup milk, ten whites, six cups flour, three teaspoons Royal baking powder. Bake in biscuit pan. Ice with thick icing, and cut in squares. — Mrs. E. J. Taylor. Plain Cake. — One cupful of sugar, half cupful of butter, half cupful of milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, two teaspoonfuls of vanilla, two eggs, flour to thicken. This will make one loaf. Cream the butter and sugar together, add the beaten eggs, the milk, vanilla and flour, then the baking powder. Flour varies so much that the exact quantity cannot be given, but enough has been added when the track made by the spoon in mixing does not at once disappear. Add the baking powder after the flour and beat in well. Line the baking pan with oiled paper, and bake in a slow oven thirty minutes. Sunshine Cake. — Separate six eggs, one jelly glass flour (even) and one of sugar, juice half lemon and little of the rind, one scant teaspoon cream and a little salt added to the whites and beaten until very stiff. Beat yolks lightly and add to whites, then the sugar, and fold in the flour, little by little. Bake in gas oven with one burner on 20 or 30 minutes, then turn more than half down and let remain in one hour altogether. — Mrs. J. E. Ryley.