3 eggs.
1 cup sugar.
Butter, the size of an egg.
1 cup flour.
1 teaspoonful cream-tartar, sifted in the flour.
½ teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a tablespoonful milk.
Bake in jelly-cake tins, and spread, when cold, with fruit-jelly.
This is, although so simple and inexpensive, an admirable foundation
for the various kinds of jelly, cream, and _méringue_ cake, which are
always popular. It seldom fails, and when well mixed and baked, is very
nice. If prepared flour be used leave out soda and cream-tartar.