DATE TORTE

Beat one-half pound of pulverized sugar with the yolks of six large eggs.  Beat long and steadily until a thick batter.  Add one-half pound of dates, cut very fine, one teaspoon each of allspice and ground cinnamon, one-fourth pound of chocolate grated, juice and peel of one lemon, three and one-half soda crackers, rolled to a fine powder, one teaspoon of baking-powder, and last the stiff-beaten whites.  Bake slowly.  Cake can be cut in half and put together with jelly.

GERMAN HAZELNUT TORTE

Beat together for twenty minutes until very light the yolks of eight eggs with one-half pound of granulated sugar, then add the very stiffly-beaten whites of eggs, place the bowl in which it has been stirred over a boiler in which water is boiling on the stove, stir continually but slowly until all the batter is well warmed but not too hot, add a small pinch of salt, and one-half pound of grated hazelnuts, add the nuts gradually, mix well and pour into a greased spring form.  Bake very slowly.  The grated rind of one-half lemon can be added if desired.  Ice with boiled icing.

LINZER TORTE

Cream one pound of butter with one pound of sugar until foamy, then add one by one four whole eggs.  Mix well, then stir in three-fourths pound of pounded almonds or walnuts, one teaspoon of cinnamon, one-fourth teaspoon of cloves, one pound of flour, one teaspoon of baking-powder, and a few drops of bitter almond essence.  Put in four layer pans and bake in slow oven.  Put together with apricot, strawberry, or raspberry jam and pineapple marmalade, each layer having a different preserve.  Ice top and sides.  If only two layers are desired for home use, half the quantity of ingredients can be used.  This is a very fine cake.  It is better the second day.

RUSSIAN PUNCH TORTE

Bake three layers of almond tart and flavor it with a wine glass of arrack.  When baked, scrape part of the cake out of the thickest layer, not disturbing the rim, and reserve these crumbs to add to the following filling:  Boil one-half pound of sugar in one-fourth cup of water until it spins a thread.  Add to this syrup a wine glass of rum, and the crumbs, and spread over the layers, piling one on top of the other.  Another way to fill this cake is to take some crab-apple jelly or apple marmalade and thin it with a little brandy.

WALNUT TORTE, No. 1

Grate eight ounces of walnuts and eight ounces of blanched almonds.  Beat light the yolks of twelve eggs and three-fourths pound of sugar.  Add the grated nuts and one-fourth pound of sifted flour, fold in the whites beaten to a stiff froth.  Bake in layers and fill with sweetened whipped cream.