ICE-CREAM CAKE.
Two cups sugar, scant cup of butter, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour, one cup cornstarch, whites of eight eggs, two teaspoons baking powder sifted in the flour and cornstarch. Cream, butter and sugar, add milk, then flour and cornstarch, and last eggs well beaten. Bake in layers.
ICING FOR THE ABOVE — Whites of four eggs, four cups sugar; pour half pint boiling water on sugar and boil till it candies; pour boiling sugar on the well beaten whites; then beat till it is cold. Flavor with lemon and two teaspoons vanilla. Spread between the cake. — Mrs. Werner.