Cake: Calumet
Nursery Cake. 3 tablespoonfuls butter, 1 cupful sugar, 1 egg, 1 cupful cold water, 2 cupfuls flour 4 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, 1 teaspoonful McIlhenny's Mexican Vanilla Cream the butter, add half the sugar, and continue creaming. Beat egg till light and add with the water and rest of the sugar to the creamed butter. Add flour mixed with baking powder. Flavor, beat well, and bake in a shallow pan about half an hour.
Surprise Cake. 4 tablespoonfuls butter, 1 cupful sugar, 1 egg, 1 cupful milk, 2 cupfuls flour, 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 teaspoonful McIlhenny's Mexican Vanilla.
Mix carefully, and bake like nursery cake.
Plain Wedding Cake. cupful butter, 1½ cupfuls sugar, Yolks 3 eggs, ½ cupful milk, 2½ cupfuls flour, 3½ teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, teaspoonful ground cloves, ½ teaspoonful grated nutmeg, teaspoonful powdered mace, cupful seeded raisins washed, dried, and cut in pieces, cupful currants washed, and dried, + pound citron cut in small, thin pieces, Whites 3 eggs.
Roll fruit in cupful flour, and sift the rest with baking powder and spices. Mix like feather cake, adding the floured fruit just before the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Bake in a thick loaf, in a moderate oven.
Cover with a plain, white icing.