cup of butter creamed; add two cupfuls of sugar and beat till smooth. Mix two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder with three cupfuls of flour and sift together. Add three beaten eggs to the creamed butter and sugar, flavor with lemon and beat together ten minutes; add, alternately, a little at a time, a cupful of milk and the flour. Bake in four layers. FILLING Chop fine an ounce of candied cherries, one of citron, one of candied pineapple and seeded raisins and soak till soft in warm sherry. Melt three cupfuls of sugar in a cupful of water and boil till it spins a thread; pour over the beaten whites of three eggs, beating hard; add the fruit and a half-cupful of blanched and chopped almonds. For the icing put the white of an egg in a bowl with a teaspoonful of lemon-juice and a few drops of water; beat and add confectioner's sugar till thick enough to spread. Top decorate candied.