White Cake.
Reading edition
Take: Sugar, 2 cupfuls; butter, 1 cupful; milk, 1 cupful; eggs, whites of 6; cream-tartar, 2 teaspoonfuls; soda, 1 teaspoonful; flour, 2 cupfuls; cornstarch, 1 cupful.
Beat together two cups of sugar and one of butter; add one cupful of sweet milk, the whites of six eggs whipped to a froth, two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar, one of soda, two cupfuls of flour, and one of cornstarch. Mix together thoroughly, and bake in a rather quick oven.
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