One cup butter; 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar; 3 cups sifted flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 cup sweet milk; whites five eggs. Beat this batter until it is smooth and fine grained just before putting it into the pans - Mrs. P. S. Skeele.

White Cake

Two cups sugar; 1/2 cup butter; 1 cup milk; whites 4 eggs well beaten; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 2 1/2 cups flour.

Filling - One egg, beaten; 1/2 pint milk; 1/2 cup sugar; 1 tablespoon of cornstarch. Boil until it thickens, add vanilla and 1/2 cup of nuts well chopped - Mrs. Charles Webster.

White Cake

Half cup butter, scant;, 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar; 1 cup cold water; three even cups pastry flour sifted three times before measuring; 2 rounded teaspoons baking powder; whites of 4 eggs.

Flavoring - Cream, butter and sugar; add 1/3 of water with one cup of flour; beat thoroughly and add second cup of flour, continue beating. Into last cup of flour sift baking powder and add as others; then the rest of the water; add flavoring. Fold in well beaten white of eggs carefully. Bake in layers; use boiled icing for filling. - Mrs. Penny.