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American White Cake

Work a couple of ounces of butter into a cream, beat up the whites of half a dozen eggs in half a pint of milk, adding a pound of flour, a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and half a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda, mixing the butter with the flour, and rubbing it in thoroughly, then make into a dough with the milk and eggs. Butter a square cake-tin, and pour in the mixture, baking in a quick oven for an hour. Then brush over the top with the white of eggs, and sift caster-sugar over it, replacing in the oven for two or three minutes.