Name: White Mountain Cake. No. 2
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 cupfuls of sugar and one of butter; 1 cupful of milk; 8 eggs very stiff; 4 cups of sifted flour one tablespoonful of baking powder; 10 whites of egg; 4 eggs beaten to a very stiff froth; 2 cups of fine white sugar and the juice of half a lemon; 1 on another

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Cream three cupfuls of sugar and one of butter, making it very light, then add a cupful of milk. Beat the whites of eight eggs very stiff, add half of those to the other ingredients. Mix well into four cups of sifted flour one tablespoonful of baking powder; stir this into the cake, add flavoring, then the remaining beaten whites of egg. Bake in layers like jelly cake. Make an icing for the filling, using the whites of four eggs beaten to a very stiff froth, with two cups of fine white sugar and the juice of half a lemon. Spread each layer of the cake thickly with this icing, place one on another, then ice all over the top and sides. The yolks left from this cake may be used to make a spice cake from the recipe of "Golden Spice Cake."

3 cupfuls of sugar and one of butter
1 cupful of milk
8 eggs very stiff
4 cups of sifted flour one tablespoonful of baking powder
10 whites of egg
4 eggs beaten to a very stiff froth
2 cups of fine white sugar and the juice of half a lemon
1 on another

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1

Cream three cupfuls of sugar and one of butter, making it very light, then add a cupful of milk.
2

Beat the whites of eight eggs very stiff, add half of those to the other ingredients.
3

Mix well into four cups of sifted flour one tablespoonful of baking powder; stir this into the cake, add flavoring, then the remaining beaten whites of egg.
4

Bake in layers like jelly cake.
5

Make an icing for the filling, using the whites of four eggs beaten to a very stiff froth, with two cups of fine white sugar and the juice of half a lemon.
6

Spread each layer of the cake thickly with this icing, place one on another, then ice all over the top and sides.
7

The yolks left from this cake may be used to make a spice cake from the recipe of "Golden Spice Cake.".

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