One cup sugar, two tablespoons butter, five tablespoons sweet milk,
three eggs, one teaspoon soda, two teaspoons cream tartar. Flavor
with lemon. Bake in layers, and spread with jelly.



ALMOND JELLY CAKE. MRS. GEORGE KLING.

Three coffee-cups sugar, one heaping coffee-cup butter, and the yolks
of six eggs, beaten together to a cream; five even cups sifted flour,
four teaspoonfuls baking powder; one and one-half cups sweet milk; the
whites of the six eggs beaten to a stiff froth, and added last; with
one teaspoonful lemon flavoring. Bake in layers.

ALMOND SAUCE FOR FILLING.--Three pounds almonds, blanched and pounded
to a paste, one and one-half coffee-cups fresh, pure sour cream, one
and one-half coffee-cups sugar, four eggs (whites and yolks beaten
thoroughly together). Stir all together, and add vanilla enough to
drown the taste of sour cream.



WHITE LAYER CAKE. MRS. MARY DICKERSON.

One-half cup butter, two cups sugar, whites of five eggs, one cup
milk, two and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one
teaspoon vanilla.