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Rose or Clouded Cake

12 eggs, leaving out the whites of 3. 1 pound flour. 1 pound sugar. 3/4 pound butter. 2 small teaspoonfuls cream tartar. 2 small teaspoonfuls powdered alum. 1 small teaspoonful soda. 2 small teaspoonfuls cochineal, dissolved in 1/3 cupful boiling water.

Having dissolved the alum, soda, and cream tartar, mix with the cochineal. Stir these ingredients in nearly one-third of the batter. Our into the cake mould a layer of white batter, and a layer of red batter, alternately, beginning and ending with white; three layers of white and two of red. This is an ornamental cake to cut for baskets.