This section is from the book "Temperance Cook Book", by Mary G. Smith. Also available from Amazon: Temperance Cook Book.
One pound of powdered sugar, fourteen ounces of flour, seven ounces of butter, three tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, whites of sixteen eggs, two small teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder, flavor with bitter almonds or rose water. First, mix butter and sugar, then milk, then flour and eggs, alternately, and add baking-powder last.
Whites of twelve eggs, three cups of powdered sugar, small cup of butter, a cup of sweet milk, four small cups flour, half cup of cornstarch, two teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder, flavor with rose, or almond.
One pound of powdered sugar, three-fourths of a pound of sifted flour, six ounces of butter, the whipped whites of ten eggs.
Flavor with bitter almonds, and bake in square, not very deep tins. Flavor the frosting with vanilla. The combination is very pleasant.
 
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