3 cups sugar.
1 cup butter.
½ cup sweet milk.
Whites of ten eggs.
½ teaspoonful soda, }
1 teaspoonful cream tartar,} sifted with the flour.
4 cups flour.
Flavor with essence of bitter almond.
Icing, whites of three eggs, 1 lb. powdered sugar. Flavor with
lemon-juice. Bake in jelly-cake tins, and fill with grated cocoanut,
sweetened with a quarter of its weight of powdered sugar, or with icing
such as is made for Lee cake, only flavored with lemon entirely.