1 cup of butter,

2 cups of sugar, rubbed to a light cream.

1 cup of sweet milk.

6 eggs, the whites only - beaten stiff.

1/2 teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in boiling water.

1 teaspoonful of cream tartar, sifted with flour.

4 cups of flour, or enough for tolerably thick batten Juice of 1 lemon, and half the grated peel.