Cream butter and sugar, add the milk, flavoring the whites and flour. Divide the batter into three parts. Bruise and pound a few leaves of spinach in a thin muslin bag, until you can express the juice. Put a few drops of this into one portion of the batter, color another with cochineal, leaving the third white. Put a little of each into small round pans or cups, giving a slight stir to each color as you add the next. This will vein the cakes prettily. Put the white between the pink and green, that the tints may show better.
If you can get pistachio-nuts to pound up for the green, the cakes will be much nicer.
Ice on sides and top.
Snow-Drops.
1 cup of butter.
2 cups of sugar.
Whites of 5 eggs.
1 small cup of milk.
3 full cups of prepared flour.
Flavor with vanilla and nutmeg.