This section is from the book "Hanover Cook Book", by The Library Association. Also available from Amazon: The Hanover Cook Book.
Whites of 9 eggs, 1 1/4 cups of sugar, 1 cup flour, scant 1/2 teaspoonful cream tartar, a pinch of salt added to the eggs before whipping, whip eggs about half, add cream tartar and whip until very stiff, add sugar and beat in, then flavor, then flour. Sift flour 4 times, sugar 2 times. Bake in moderate oven. Will bake in 30 to 40 minutes.
Mrs. W. F. Kintzing.
Whites 11 eggs, scant 1 1/2 cups sugar, 1 cup flour. Sift sugar and flour 4 times before measuring. Add pinch of salt to whites of eggs, and 1 even teaspoonful cream of tartar when eggs are half beaten. Beat whites until very stiff, add sugar and flavoring, carefully fold in flour. Bake in ungreased pan 45 minutes. Mrs. Frank Bussom.
Whites of 10 eggs, 1 1/4 cups of sugar, 1 cup of flour, 1 teaspoonful cream tartar, 1 teaspoonful vanilla. Beat whites of eggs very stiff. When about half beaten add cream tartar. Sift sugar and flour each 4 times then measure after sifting. Sift in sugar, then flour, add vanilla. Bake 45 minutes in a pan without greasing, in a moderate oven.
Mrs. J. B. Weeks.
5 eggs, yolks beaten separately with a pinch of salt, 2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup cold water, 2 1/2 cups flour, whites of 3 eggs well beaten and put in last, grated rind and juice of 1 orange.
Whites of 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, grated rind of 1 orange. Sarah Dusman.
2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 cup butter, whites of 4 eggs, and yolks of 5 eggs, grated rind of 1 orange, 2 large teaspoonfuls baking powder to be sifted with the flour. Bake in a quick oven.
Take the white of the 1 egg that re-mained, beat stiff, add sugar, and the juice of the orange, beat well, and spread between layers.
Mrs. F. C. Zinn.
2 cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 4 cups flour, 1 cup sweet cream, 4 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder.
Mrs. J. H. Mackelduff.
Weigh 8 eggs, take their weight in butter, sugar, and flour. Flavor with 3 tablespoonfuls grape juice and 2 of rose water. Work sugar and butter very light, then break the whole egg, one at a time, and work well, then flour and flavoring. Bake 1 hour; the first half, have oven little over moderate, the last half cooler. Mrs. J. H. Fleming.
1 lb. butter, 1 lb. sugar, 1 lb. flour, 6 eggs beaten separately, 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder sifted in flour, 1 cup sweet milk. Cream butter and sugar together, add the yolks of eggs, then milk and flour, and lastly the whites of eggs. Vanilla or lemon flavoring. Mrs. D. F. Stair.
7 eggs, 1 cup of sugar, two-thirds cup of flour, 1/2 teaspoonful of cream tartar. Beat the whites and yolks of the eggs separately, sift the sugar and flour four times, and bake in a moderate oven for three quarters of an hour.
Mrs. Charles E. Royer, Westminster, Md.
 
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