1 cup butter.

2 cups sugar.

1½ cups corn starch.

2 cups flour.

1 cup milk, perfectly sweet.

½ teaspoonful soda.

½ teaspoonful cream tartar.

Beat the sugar and butter together. Dissolve the soda and corn starch in the milk; put the cream tartar in the flour. Mix these well, and then add the whites of eight eggs well beaten.—Mrs. S.

White Fruit Cake.

1 pound sugar.