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Sandwich Cake

Miss Brokovski.

One coffee cup of sugar, one large tablespoonful of butter beaten to a cream with the sugar, three eggs beaten separately, one heaping coffee-cup of flour, three teaspoonsful of Cook's Friend baking powder mixed well through the flour, and one tablespoonful of milk; if cream of tartar, two teaspoonsful and one of soda, mixing the cream of tartar in the flour, and putting soda in the milk. Mix all together, seasoning with extract of lemon; beat well for a few minutes; bake on four flat tins in a quick This may be put together with jelly or custard or cocoanut, using the dessicated cocoanut, moistened with the whites of three eggs beaten to a froth, and iced over. oven.

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