One-quarter cup of butter, one-half cup of sugar, one and one-third cups of milk, whites of three eggs, one and a quarter cups of white cornmeal, one and a quarter cups of flour, four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of salt.

Cream the butter; add sugar gradually; add milk, alternating with dry ingredients, mixed and sifted. Beat thoroughly; add whites of eggs beaten stiff. Bake in buttered cake pan thirty minutes.