Custard Cake
1/2 cupful butter. 2 cupfuls sugar. 7 eggs, leaving out 4 yolks. 3 cupfuls flour. 1 cupful of milk 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in shallow pans. For the custard: one quart of milk, let come to a boil, sweeten it; take the four yolks and three tablespoonfuls of cornstarch, mix with a little of the milk cold, and then stir it gradually into the boiling milk, and continue to stir until done. Add a piece of butter the size of a walnut; flavor with vanilla, and put between the cakes.--Mrs. C. B.
— Mrs. Galt'S Cake
Whites of 13 eggs, yolks of 3. 3/4 pound of butter. 1 pound of flour. 1 pound of sugar. Season to taste.--Miss E. T.