This section is from the book "Crumbs From Everybody's Table - A Cook Book", by Mrs R. L. Porter, Mrs H. S. Ball. Also available from Amazon: Crumbs from everybody's table: A cook book.
1 1/2 cupfuls of sugar, 1/3 cupful of butter, 1/2 cupful of milk,
2full cupfuls of flour,
2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Whites of four eggs. Cream butter and sugar, add whites of eggs beaten to froth, then milk, and lastly flour and baking powder well mixed. Bake in layers.
Boil one cupful sugar, three-fourths cupful water, and a. small pinch of cream of tartar until it threads, then pour over the beaten whites of two eggs, and add 15c worth of pink and white marsh mallow candy. Flavor a little with vanilla and spread between layers.
Mrs. H. Fry.
Beat three-fourths of a pound of butter with one and one-half cupfuls of sugar to a cream; to this add one cupful of hot water and two cupfuls of flour; beat all together five minutes; add to this mixture two teaspoonfuls of baking powder in one-half cupful of flour; next whites of four, eggs beaten stiff; bake in three layers.
To one ounce of gum Arabic add four tablespoonfuls of cold water; let stand one-half hour then put cup in boiling water and stir until gum is dissolved; strain through cheese cloth into double boiler and add four ounces powdered sugar; stir twenty minutes, remove and stir until stiff; heat the mixture until scalding hot, remove and add quickly one teaspoonful vanilla and beaten whites of two eggs; when cool put between layers.
Mrs. V. D. Black.
 
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