*White Cake — I
1 cup butter
3 cups powdered sugar
1 cup milk
5 cups sifted flour
1 tea-spoon carbonate of soda
2 tea-spoons cream of tartar
Whites of twelve eggs
1 tea-spoon vanilla
Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar. Beat well. Add the soda to the milk and the cream of tartar to the flour. Add flour and milk to the mixture, beating hard all the time. Beat the eggs to a stiff froth. Add them and the vanilla. Bake in two tins lined with greased paper. The oven should be slow at first, then moderate.