1 scant quart flour.
4 eggs.
1 teacupful milk.
1 teacupful lard and butter mixed.
1 teaspoonful cream-tartar.
½ teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water.
1 teaspoonful salt.
Beat the eggs very light, yolks and whites separately, melt the
shortening, sift the cream-tartar into the flour; add the whites the
last thing.