Lady Cake
1 cup butter
2 cups powdered sugar
3 cups flour
¹⁄₂ cup milk
Whites of 8 eggs
2 tea-spoons cream of tartar
1 tea-spoon carbonate of soda
1 tea-spoon extract of almonds
Beat the butter to a cream. Stir in the sugar gradually, beating hard all the time. Mix the cream of tartar with the flour, and the soda with the milk. Add flour and milk alternately in small quantities, beating continually. Add the flavouring, and then stir in the stiffly-beaten whites lightly. Bake in a moderate oven in a tin lined with greased paper.