The whites of 8 eggs.
1 cup of butter.
2 cups of sugar.
3 cups of flour.
½ cup sweet milk.
1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar.
½ teaspoonful of soda.
Mix all the ingredients well, and flavor with lemon. Bake in very
shallow pans. Ice each cake separately and cover with jelly; then form
a large cake, and ice over.--_Mrs. Dr. S._
SNOW MOUNTAIN CAKE.
1 cup of butter.
3 cups of sugar, creamed together.
1 cup of sweet cream.
1 teaspoonful cream of tartar and ½ teaspoon of soda, sprinkled
in 3½ cups of sifted flour.
Whites of 10 eggs.
Bake in thin cakes as for jelly cakes. Ice and sprinkle each layer
with grated cocoanut.
Take the whites of three eggs for the icing, and grate one
cocoanut.--_Mrs. C. M. A._
SNOW CAKE.
Whites of 10 eggs.
1½ cups of sugar.
1 cup of flour.
2 teaspoons of cream of tartar.
Salt.
Flavoring.
Rub the flour, cream tartar, sugar, and salt, well together. Add the
eggs beaten light, and stir only sufficient to mix very
lightly.--_Mrs. G. P._
WHITE MOUNTAIN ASH CAKE.
1 pound white sugar.
1 teacup of butter.
½ teacup sweet milk.
Whites of 10 eggs.
½ small teaspoonful of soda.
1 teaspoonful cream tartar.
3 cups of flour.
Flavor with vanilla or almond.
Bake in jelly-cake pans, with icing and cocoanut between.
_Icing for cake._--One pound fine white sugar, and whites of three
eggs.--_Miss E. P._
MOUNTAIN ASH CAKE.
The whites of 8 eggs.
1 cup of butter.
2 cups of sugar.
3 cups of flour.
½ cup of sweet milk.
½ teaspoonful of soda.
1 teaspoonful cream of tartar.
Mix all the ingredients well, and flavor with lemon.
Bake in shallow pans; ice each cake separately and cover with jelly,
then form a large cake and ice over.--_Mrs. P._
BRIDE'S CAKE.
1 pound flour.
¾ pounds sugar.
½ pound butter.
Whites of 14 eggs.
Cream sugar and butter together, and stir in them flour and beaten
whites, very little at a time; one and a half pounds fruit, prepared
and mixed with batter, will make a nice fruit cake.--_Mrs. H. D._
_Bride's Cake._
Whites of 18 eggs.
1¼ pounds sugar.
1 pound flour.
¾ pound butter.
Cream butter and sugar together; whip the eggs to a stiff froth, then
add gradually, flour, butter, sugar.
Season with lemon or brandy. Bake as pound cake.--_Mrs. R. E._
_Bride's Cake._
1½ pounds flour.
1½ pounds sugar.
1-1/8 pounds butter.
Whites of 20 eggs.
½ a teaspoon of powdered ammonia dissolved in ½ a wineglass of brandy.
Heavy plain icing. 1½ pound mould.
Insert the ring after the cake is baked.--_Miss S._
_Bride's Cake._
¾ pound flour.
½ pound butter.
14 whites of eggs.
1 pound sugar--beat in the whites.
The acid of 1 green lemon.
Double for one and a half pound cake.--_Mrs. J._
SILVER CAKE.
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