This section is from the book "More Recipes For Fifty", by Frances Lowe Smith. Also available from Amazon: More Recipes For Fifty.
1 cup sugar
2 cups boiling water 1/2 cup cold water
3 cups barley flour 1 cup potato flour
2 teaspoons salt
3 tbspns. baking powder
3 cups white corn syrup 12 eggs
4 teaspoons flavoring
Boil syrup, sugar, and water until it threads; add to stiff whites, beating until mixture is cold. Sift dry ingredients together three times. Beat yolks until thick and lemon colored; add alternately with flour to first mixture, folding in as quickly as possible. Mix cold water and any desired flavoring, and add to mixture. Bake at about 365° F. until half done, then raise to 4000.
 
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