The new Kentucky home cook book

Take the whites of ten eggs, one and one-half cupful of powdered sugar, one cupful of flour, a small tea-spoonful of cream of tartar, one-half tea-spoonful of soda. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, sift the sugar on them, mix the cream of tartar through the flour, then the soda. Stir the flour, sugar, and eggs lightly together. Gr. W. Geisel. The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. 269 DELICATE CAKE. Take the whites of fourteen eggs, one-half pound of butter after the salt is washed out, even three-fourths pound of flour, one pound of powdered sugar, one tea-spoonful of baking-powder sifted through the flour. Cream the butter until light, add the sugar, and beat them well together. Add the whites of eggs and flour alternately, having previously beaten the eggs till stiff. Flavor with two or three drops of bitter almonds. Grease the pan and have greased paper in the bottom — light brown paper is the best. Set it in an oven in which you can bear your hand, to rise for one hour, then bake in a moderately hot oven for half an hour. Mrs. Nannie Yeaman. PERFECTION CAKE. Take three cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of butter with the salt washed out, one cupful of sweet milk, three cupfuls of sifted flour, one cupful of corn starch, the whites of twelve eggs beaten to a stiff froth, two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder. Dissolve the corn starch in half of the milk, cream the butter and sugar well together, then the milk and flour, last the eggs and baking-powder. Bake for one hour in a moderate oven. Mrs. Keith. WHITE CAKE. Take the whites of twenty-four eggs, beat five cupfuls of powdered sugar into them after they are frothed, cream two cupfuls of butter and six cupfuls of sifted flour together, then add the sugar and eggs, two tea-spoonfuls of bakingpowder. Flavor to taste. Mrs. H. Bierbower. DELICATE CAKE. Take one pound of powdered sugar, one-half pound of butter with the salt washed out, three-quarters of a pound of flour, the whites of twelve eggs. Cream the butter and The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. one half of the sugar together, beat the eggs to a stiff froth, then beat in the other half pound of sugar. Add the flour and beaten eggs to the butter and sugar, with one wineglassful of whisky stirred in at the last. Mrs. America Howe. Dry the flour near the fire or in the sun. Let it get cool before using. Take twelve eggs beaten separately, one pound of powdered sugar, three-fourths pound of flour, one lemon. Take two yelks out, gradually add the sugar, grate the rind of the lemon, add the juice to the yelks, stir in the flour a little at a time. Mix the whites of the eggs lightly through, and add the last thing one -half tea -spoonful of baking-powder. Grease the pan, and bake in a moderate oven. Bazar. Take three eggs, two cupfuls of powdered sugar, three cupfuls of flour, one-half cupful of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one tea-spoonful of soda, one lemon — juice and grated rind. Beat the eggs separately, add the sugar to the yelks, then the flour, lastly the whites of the eggs.