This section is from the book "Centennial Cookery Book", by Woman's Centennial Association. Also available from Amazon: Centennial Cookery Book.
One pound of flour, 1 pound of sugar, 3/4 pound of butter, 15 eggs, whites only.
Three cups of sugar, 1 cup of butter (coffee cup), 1 cup of milk (sweet), 1 cup of corn-starch, 3 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon soda (small spoon), 2 teaspoons Cream tartar, whites of 12 eggs. Flavor with extract of lemon or almond. Cream the butter and sugar. Add the corn-starch which has been previously moistened with half the milk. Dissolve the soda in the other half of the milk, then add to the mixture, then add the flour and Cream of tartar, sifted together, and lastly the eggs beaten to a stiff froth.
One cup butter, 3 cups sugar, 5 of flour, 1 1/2 cup milk and the whites of 6 eggs beaten very stiff. 1 teaspoonful soda, 2 teaspoonfuls Cream tartar.
One cup butter (coffee cup), 3 cups sugar, 1 cup sweet milk, 4 1/2 cups flour, 4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, whites of 10 eggs. Cream the butter and sugar, add half the milk, sift the flour and baking powder together, add part of it, then the milk, then the remainder of the flour. Lastly the eggs. Bake in layers. This may be varied by taking 1/2 the mixture and adding raisins, currants and spices to taste. Put together the layers with frosting. Sift your flour and sugar 2 or 3 times before measuring.
Whites of 6 eggs, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup milk, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Flavor with almond. pound English walnuts broken, not too fine.
 
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