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Sponge Cake.  [illeg.]ing up to [illeg.] one afternoon helping me prepare for a [illeg.] but [illeg.] One pint of sugar, one of flour 6 eggs, and not quite a gill of water.  flavor to taste. -- (Ginger Snaps.)  Two pounds of flour, half pound of butter, half pound of sugar, half pint of Molasses, one teaspoonful of ginger [flavor?] with cloves & cinnamon.  
Silver Cake.  2 cup of sugar, one of butter, one cup of sweet milk, the whites of six eggs, well beat, one teaspoonful of cream, a [illeg.] half teaspoonful soda.  
Bell [Butter?].  [illeg.] a peice [sic] of butter the size of an egg into a pint of water let it boil a few minutes, thicken it very [slowly?] [illeg.] a pint of flour; let it [remain?] a short time, [on the fire?] stir it all the time that it may not [stick?] pour it in a wooden bowl, add fine or [illeg.] [in?], and beating it in, then add another [illeg.] so on till they are all in, and the dough [illeg.]  Put a pint of [lard?] in a pan, let it boil, [illeg.] other small [illeg.] a nice brown color.  
White Cake.  [whites of?] 10 eggs, 2 cups of sugar, 4 of flour, one of [illeg.] of soda, 2 of cream tartar, the cream tartar to soda to [illeg.] flour.

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Sponge Cake. [illeg.]ing up to [illeg.] one afternoon helping me prepare for a [illeg.] but [illeg.] One pint of sugar, one of flour 6 eggs, and not quite a gill of water. flavor to taste. -- (Ginger Snaps.) Two pounds of flour, half pound of butter, half pound of sugar, half pint of Molasses, one teaspoonful of ginger [flavor?] with cloves & cinnamon. Silver Cake. 2 cup of sugar, one of butter, one cup of sweet milk, the whites of six eggs, well beat, one teaspoonful of cream, a [illeg.] half teaspoonful soda. Bell [Butter?]. [illeg.] a peice [sic] of butter the size of an egg into a pint of water let it boil a few minutes, thicken it very [slowly?] [illeg.] a pint of flour; let it [remain?] a short time, [on the fire?] stir it all the time that it may not [stick?] pour it in a wooden bowl, add fine or [illeg.] [in?], and beating it in, then add another [illeg.] so on till they are all in, and the dough [illeg.] Put a pint of [lard?] in a pan, let it boil, [illeg.] other small [illeg.] a nice brown color. White Cake. [whites of?] 10 eggs, 2 cups of sugar, 4 of flour, one of [illeg.] of soda, 2 of cream tartar, the cream tartar to soda to [illeg.] flour.