beat together, and baked in pans or cups. Bake twenty minutes, and no
more.


TEA CAKE.

There is a kind of tea cake still cheaper. Three cups of sugar, three
eggs, one cup of butter, one cup of milk, a spoonful of dissolved
pearlash, and four cups of flour, well beat up. If it is so stiff it
will not stir easily, add a little more milk.


CIDER CAKE.

Cider cake is very good, to be baked in small loaves. One pound and
a half of flour, half a pound of sugar, quarter of a pound of butter,
half a pint of cider, one teaspoonful of pearlash; spice to your
taste. Bake till it turns easily in the pans. I should think about
half an hour.


ELECTION CAKE.

Old-fashioned election cake is made of four pounds of flour; three
quarters of a pound of butter; four eggs; one pound of sugar; one
pound of currants, or raisins if you choose; half a pint of good
yeast; wet it with milk as soft as it can be and be moulded on a
board. Set to rise over night in winter; in warm weather, three hours
is usually enough for it to rise. A loaf, the size of common flour
bread, should bake three quarters of an hour.