White Cake, page 156

One cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of butter, whites of 3 eggs well beaten, 1 large teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 cup of sweet milk, 2 cups of flour. Flavor to suit taste.

Yellow Cake, page 161

Yolks of 4 eggs, 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of milk, half cup of butter, 1 large teaspoonful baking powder, 2 cups of flour. Flavor with anything to suit.

Prepared Chocolate for Cake, page 190

The yolks of 3 eggs, cup of white sugar, table-spoonful of sweet milk, small cake of chocolate; boil till thick.

Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.