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Ordinary White Cake

1 pound of sugar. 8 ounces of butter, melted. 10 whites of eggs. 1 cupful of milk. 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. 1 1/2 pounds of flour. Beat the sugar, melted butter and whites all together a minute or two, add the milk, powder, flour and flavor.

Now, if we had to make cakes in some place where people took notice and made remarks and said we did not know much about making good things in hotels nohow, and if they couldn't do better they would sell out, we should want to make the snow cake as beautiful and white as cotton batting, bake it thin in jelly cake pans, spread some of the richest confections between the cakes, and ice the top, having the cake and the icing so near alike in whiteness as to be hardly distinguishable apart.