Cornstarch Cake.
Reading edition
Take: Sugar, 2 cupfuls; butter, 1 cupful; milk, 1 cupful; eggs, 3; soda, 1 teaspoonful; flour, 2 cupfuls; cornstarch, 1 cupful; cream-tartar, 2 teaspoonfuls.
Stir two cupfuls of sugar and one of butter to a cream; add one cup of milk, three eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, and one teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in a little hot water; then stir in two cupfuls of flour, and one cupful of cornstarch, with two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar sifted through them. Bake in small tins, and eat fresh.
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