By using a heaping tablespoonful of yellow ginger, this becomes a delicious sugar gingerbread, or, with mixed spices and ginger, a spice gingerbread.
This cake with the variations upon it makes up page after page in the large cook-books.

Use but half a cup of butter, and you have a plain _Cup Cake_.

Add a cup of currants and one of chopped raisins, and it is plain _Fruit Cake_, needing to bake one hour.

Bake on Washington-pie tins, and you have the foundation for _Cream_ and _Jelly Cakes_.

A little experience, and then invention, will show you how varied are the combinations, and how one page in your cook-book can do duty for twenty.
POUND CAKE.
One pound of sugar; one pound of flour; three-quarters of a pound of butter; nine eggs; one teaspoonful of baking powder, and one of lemon extract; one nutmeg grated.
Cream the butter, and add half the flour, sifting the baking powder with the other half.