This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
1 cup of butter. 3 cups of flour. 2 cups of sugar. 2 level teaspoonfuls of cream-of-tartar (scant measure). 1 cup of milk. The whites of six eggs. 1/2 teaspoonful of soda. 1 grated cocoanut.
Follow the directions for mixing butter cakes; add the cocoanut (freshly .grated) at the last and bake in two tube pans; ice with boiled icing. Or bake in small cakes - the mixture will make three dozen. When cold dip in fondant, delicately tinted, and ornament with halved almonds and candied cherries. For baking in loaves, or small cakes, the oven at first needs be at a very moderate temperature.
1 1/2 pounds of butter. 2 level teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. 1 1/2 pounds of sugar. 10 eggs. 1 cup of milk (scant). 1 1/2 pounds of flour. Sliced citron.
1 cup of butter. 4 eggs. 1 1/2 cups of sugar (powdered). 1/2 cup of milk. 2 cups of flour. 1 level teaspoonful of baking-powder.
2/3 cup of butter. 1 level teaspoonful of baking-powder. 1 cup of sugar. 4 yolks of eggs. 1 tablespoonful of milk. 1 1/2 cups of flour. 4 whites of eggs.
 
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