Cream together one pound sugar, one and a half pounds butter. Beat eight eggs light without separating; stir them gradually into the sugar and butter. Sift in one pound of flour; beat all light. Then put in an even teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a half-teacupful of sweet milk, two even teaspoonfuls cream tartar dissolved in the same quantity of milk. Season with lemon or vanilla. Bake in jelly pans. Icing for the same: nine tablespoonfuls of water, one pound of sugar; boil till it glistens. Beat the whites of four eggs to a stiff froth. Stir them into the boiling icing, then add one-quarter pound grated chocolate. Spread the icing between the cakes and over the top.--_Miss S._ CHOCOLATE JELLY CAKE. Make a sponge cake according to old family recipe, bake either in jelly tins or moulds; then slice the cake for the following preparation: one teacupful of milk, half a cake Baker's chocolate, scraped or grated, one egg beaten with sugar enough to make it sweet; flavor with vanilla. Let it boil (stirring all the time) till quite thick. Place it evenly and thickly between the slices of cake. Instead of the sponge cake, some use the ordinary jelly-cake recipe.--_Mrs. B._ CITRON CAKE. 12 ounces flour. 12 ounces butter. 10 eggs. 1 pound sugar. 1 pound citron, cut in thin slices. Mix like a pound cake.--_Mrs. C. L. T._ _Citron Cake._ 4 large coffeecups sifted flour. 2½ cupfuls powdered sugar. 1 cupful butter. Whites of 10 eggs, beaten to a stiff froth. Add two tablespoonfuls rose water. Butter a cake pan, and put alternate layers of batter and citron sliced in long, thin slices.--_Mrs. McG._ CITRON CAKE. 1 pound flour. 1 pound sugar. ¾ pound butter. 12 eggs. 2 pounds citron. 2 pounds grated cocoanut. 2 pounds almonds. 1 teaspoonful mace.--_Mrs. M. E._ _Citron Cake._ 1 pound of flour. ½ pound of sugar, ¾ pound of butter. 10 or 12 eggs. 2 pounds of citron. 1 cocoanut, grated. Fruit to be put in last.--_Mrs. Dr. S._ ALMOND CAKE. 1¼ pounds of sugar. 1¼ pounds of butter. 1 pound of flour. 12 eggs. 1 pound almonds.--_Mrs. B._ _Almond Cake._ 12 eggs. 1 pound flour. 1 pound sugar. 1 pound butter. 1 pound almonds (blanched). 1 pound citron. Blanch the almonds, and slice the citron thin. One wine-glass of brandy. Mix like pound cake.--_Mrs. S. T._ DARK FIG CAKE. 2 cups of sugar. 1 cup of butter. One cup of cold water, with one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it. 3 cups of raisins, chopped fine. Cinnamon and nutmeg. 4 eggs. 1 pound of figs. Use the figs whole, covering them well with the cake to prevent burning. Bake in layers, frosting between each layer. Make as stiff as pound cake. Cut with a very sharp knife, to prevent crumbling. This recipe makes two loaves.--_Mrs. A. T._ CURRANT CAKE.