1 small cup sugar - 6 ounces.

54 cup butter - 4 ounces.

2 cups milk - a pint (part of it should be sour.)

2 heaped teaspoons baking powder.

5 cups flour - 11/4 pounds.

1/2 pound citron cut small.

1 teaspoon lemon extract.

Soften the butter, stir it up with the sugar and the milk not too cold to mix. Sift the powder in the flour. Mix and beat well and add flavor and the citron previously dusted with flour. Bake in round mould or shallow tin and frost over. Fine cake and favorite. If no sour milk use pinch cream tartar or juice of half a lemon to whiten it. Use no soda in any cake that is to be white. Costs, 30 cents for 31/2 pounds frosted without eggs.