*Snow Cake
1 lb. arrowroot
¹⁄₂ lb. powdered sugar
¹⁄₂ lb. butter
Whites of six eggs
Vanilla or lemon flavouring
Beat the butter to a cream. Stir in the sugar and beat well again. Add the arrowroot, beating all the time vigorously. Whisk the whites to a stiff froth. Add them to the mixture. Beat all together for twenty minutes. Add a little vanilla or the juice or rind of a lemon. Bake in a buttered mould in a moderate oven for from one hour to one hour and a half.
*White Cake—I
1 cup butter
3 cups powdered sugar
1 cup milk
5 cups sifted flour
1 tea-spoon carbonate of soda
2 tea-spoons cream of tartar
Whites of twelve eggs
1 tea-spoon vanilla
Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar. Beat well. Add the soda to the milk and the cream of tartar to the flour. Add flour and milk to the mixture, beating hard all the time. Beat the eggs to a stiff froth. Add them and the vanilla. Bake in two tins lined with greased paper. The oven should be slow at first, then moderate.
White Cake—II
3 cups sugar
¹⁄₂ cup butter
1 cup sweet milk
2 tea-spoons cream of tartar
1 tea-spoon carbonate of soda
3 cups flour
Whites of four eggs
Mix as for the first receipt.