Drop Cake
6 eggs. 1 pound sugar. 3/4 pound butter. 1 teaspoonful soda, in 1 cupful sour cream. 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, in 1 quart flour. --Mrs. S.
Seventeen hundred recipes from the housewives of Old Virginia — Sally Lunn and beaten biscuit, brandy peaches and Brunswick stew — gathered in 1879 by Patrick Henry's granddaughter, with tributes from the First Lady down.
6 eggs. 1 pound sugar. 3/4 pound butter. 1 teaspoonful soda, in 1 cupful sour cream. 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, in 1 quart flour. --Mrs. S.