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Orange Cake

Use one cupful of butter, one of sweet milk, two of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, five eggs, reserving the whites of three, to be beaten to a stiff froth to go between the cakes. The remainder of the five eggs must go in the batter. Three and a half cupfuls of flour; grate two oranges (picking out the seeds and large pieces) into the batter. Take two cupfuls of pulverized sugar, beat with the reserved whites as frosting; then put between cakes as you would jelly cake.

Drop Cakes. Take one pound of flour, half a pound of sugar, half a pound of butter and three eggs. Beat the butter and flour to a cream, beat the eggs separately, add the yolks and part of the flour, then the whites and the remainder of the flour. Stir in half a pound of currants, a quarter of a pound of citron, and a teaspoonful of mace or cinnamon. Drop with a spoon upon flat tins, and sift sugar over them.