Some of the best housewives think it advisable to cream the butter and flour together, and add the sugar to the yolks when these are whipped to a stiff froth, as it produces yellow specks when you add the sugar sooner. The whites must always be added last. In making fruit cake, prepare the fruit the day before. In winter time, this may be easily and pleasantly done after tea. It requires a longer time to bake fruit cake, than plain. Every housekeeper should have a close cake-box in which to put cake after cooling it and wrapping it in a thick napkin. WHITE CAKE. The whites of 20 eggs. 1 pound of flour. 1 pound of butter. 1 pound of almonds. Use a little more flour, if the almonds are omitted.--_Mrs. Dr. S._ _White Cake._ 1 cup of butter. 3 cups of sugar. 1 cup of sweet milk. The whites of 5 eggs. 3 cups of flour. 3 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar. 1 teaspoonful of soda.--_Mrs. D. C. K._ SUPERIOR WHITE CAKE. 1 pound sugar. The whites of 10 eggs. ¾ pound butter. 1 pound of flour. Flavor with lemon or rose-water, and bake in a moderate oven.--_Mrs. F. C. W._ LEIGHTON CAKE. 1 pint butter. 1 pint cream. 2 pints sugar. 4 pints flour. 2 teaspoonfuls essence of almonds. The whites of 12 eggs. 2 teaspoonfuls yeast powder, mixed in flour.--_Mrs. N._ WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE. 4 cups flour. 1 cup butter. 3 cups sugar, creamed with the butter. 1 cup sweet milk. 2 small teaspoonfuls cream of tartar. 1 small teaspoonful of soda. Whites of 10 eggs beaten very light. Bake in jelly-cake pans; when cold, make an icing of whites of three eggs and one pound of sugar. Grate cocoanut over each layer of icing.--_Mrs. P. McG._ _White Mountain Cake._ 1 pound sugar. ½ pound butter. ¾ pound of flour. 1 large teaspoonful essence of bitter almonds. Whites of 10 eggs, whipped very stiff. Cream butter and sugar, put next the eggs, then the flour, lastly the flavoring.--_Mrs. D. C. K._ _White Mountain Cake._ Make four or five thicknesses of cake, as for jelly cake. Grate one large cocoanut. The juice and grated rind of two lemons or oranges. The whites of six eggs beaten very light, with one pound sugar. To this add the milk of one cocoanut, then rind and juice of one orange. Lastly, stir in the cocoanut well, and put between the cakes as you would jelly.--_Mrs. J. L._ _White Mountain Cake._ 1 pound flour. 1 pound sugar. ¾ pound butter. Whites of 16 eggs. Wine-glass of wine or brandy. Bake in flat pans. Grate two cocoanuts. Beat the whites of four or five eggs to a stiff froth, and mix as much sugar as for icing. Stir in the cocoanut; spread between each layer of the cake, as jelly cake. Ice it all, or only on top, or not at all, as you please.--_Mrs. M._ _Mountain Cake._