3 eggs ¾ cup shaved or grated maple sugar ⅜ cup potato flour (scant half cup) ½ teaspoon baking powder

1 level teaspoon salt

Cream the yolks of eggs and sugar together very, very thoroughly.

Beat the whites stiff and add to the above mixture. Also add salt.

Sift the flour and baking powder together, then add.

Bake at once in two layer-cake tins, in a moderate oven, for about twenty minutes.

Maple Cake.

Icing

( If this icing is cooked to thermometer test, it will be exactly right. Fluffy icing cam/not be dependably made unless tested accurately.)

1 cup maple sugar 1/4 cup water or 1 cup maple syrup

2 egg whites, well beaten

(A tiny pinch of salt added to eggs while beating makes them beat up stiffer.)