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Corn Starch Cake
Sugar, 11/2 cups; flour, 11/2 cups; butter, 1/2cup; corn starch, 1/2 cup; milk, 1/2 cup; whites of 6 eggs; baking powder, 1 teaspoonful; extract of lemon, orange or vanilla, 2 tea-spoonfuls, or to taste; or if your taste says none, use none. Directions—Cream the sugar and butter, then the beaten whites of the eggs; wet up the corn starch with the milk and stir in; then sift in the flour wherein the baking powder has been mixed. Bake in a moderate oven.
Remarks. —See general remarks upon cake making, baking, etc., to test when done; but another test is a cake generally loosens from the edge and sides of the pan when it is done.
lady Cake. —Whites of 8 eggs, beaten to a froth; white sugar 2 cups; butter, 1 cup, creamed with the sugar; flour, 3 cups; cream of tartar, 1 teaspoonful in the flour; sweet milk, 1/2 cup, with soda, 1 tea-spoonful in it; then heat all together and bake in a mold or small pans, as you please. Season, if desired, any flavor preferred.
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