Delicate Cake.
Reading edition
Take: Butter, 1 cupful; sugar, 2 cupfuls; milk, 1 cupful; eggs, whites of 5; cream-tartar, 1 teaspoonful; soda, ½ teaspoonful; flour, 3 cupfuls.
Stir one cupful of butter and two of sugar to a cream; add one cupful of milk, the whites of five eggs, one teaspoonful of cream-tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda, and three cupfuls of sifted flour. (The yolks of the eggs can be used for other purposes).
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