The cake and biscuit book

by Elizabeth Douglas

*White Cake—III

3 cups powdered sugar
1 cup butter
1 cup milk
3 cups flour
1 cup corn starch
12 whites of eggs
2 tea-spoons cream of tartar
1 tea-spoon carbonate of soda

Mix the cream of tartar thoroughly with the flour and dissolve the soda in half of the milk. Stir the cornflour in the rest of the milk until perfectly smooth.

Beat the butter and yolks together until creamy. Add the corn starch paste. Stir it well in. Add the milk and soda and the flour. Beat the whites to a stiff froth and stir in lightly. Bake in two papered tins in a moderate oven.