If the bread was in the least sour, add a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little warm water.

Bake like pancakes, but more slowly.
TO FRESHEN STALE BREAD OR ROLLS.
Wrap in a cloth, and steam for ten or fifteen minutes in a steamer.

Then dry in the oven.

Rolls or biscuits may have the top crust wet with a little melted butter, and then brown a minute after steaming.
* * * * * CAKE.
CAKE-MAKING.
In all cake-making, see that every thing is ready to your hand,--pans buttered, or papered if necessary; flour sifted; all spices and other materials on your working-table; and the fire in good order.
No matter how plain the cake, there is a certain order in mixing, which, if followed, produces the best result from the materials used; and this order is easily reduced to rules.
First, always cream the butter; that is, stir it till light and creamy.

If very cold, heat the bowl a little, but never enough to melt, only to soften the butter.