This section is from the book "The College Woman's Cook-Book", by Miscellaneous Authors. Also available from Amazon: College Woman's Cook Book.
Whites of 11 eggs.
1 cup pastry flour sifted 6 times 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
1 1/2 cups sugar sifted 6 times 1 level teaspoon cream of tartar 1/4 teaspoon almond extract.
Beat eggs until stiff. When about half beaten add cream of tartar and finish beating. Fold in sugar, add flavoring. Then fold in flour. Pour in ungreased pan and bake very slowly forty-five to sixty minutes.
Mildred Brown, Cedar Rapids, la.
Coe College.
1/2 cup milk.
1 cup Swan's Down cake flour 1 pinch salt.
1 cup sugar.
3 teaspoons (level) baking powder.
2 egg whites, beaten very stiff.
Heat milk to boiling point. Sift flour, salt, sugar five times and stir into hot milk. Add flavoring and fold in egg whites. Do not use a greased pan. Bake 20 to 30 minutes in slow oven, increasing heat when cake is at top of pan. When done invert.
Charlotte E. Dines, Evanston, Ill. Northwestern University.
 
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