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pulverized sugar to each egg, and lemon to flavor.

WHITE ICING.

Four cups sugar, one-half teaspoonful cream of tartar, one-half
teaspoonful baking powder, one cup hot water, whites of four eggs, juice
of one-half lemon. Mix sugar, cream of tartar and baking powder. Add
water and let boil. Do not stir. Beat whites of eggs, standing in a pan
of hot water. Add boiling syrup, a spoonful at a time, slowly, until
half has been added. Put in lemon juice and beat hard, letting the rest
of the syrup boil until it looks thick. Then pour it into mixture,
beating hard. Set in pan over hot water until it will stand alone when
dropped from spoon. If not thick enough, beat and steam again; if too
thick, add boiling water and steam more.

WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE.

Two cups pulverized sugar, one-half cup butter beaten to a cream; add
one-half cup sweet milk, two and one-half cups flour, two and one-half
teaspoonfuls baking powder in the flour, whites of eight eggs; bake in
jelly tins and put together with icing made by boiling one-half teacup
water and three teacups sugar till thick; pour it slowly over the
well-beaten whites of three eggs and beat all together till cool. Beat
before putting on each layer. Sprinkle each layer thickly with grated
cocoanut, and a handsome cocoanut cake will result.

WHITE PERFECTION CAKE.

Three cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup milk, three cups flour, one
cup cornstarch, three teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites of twelve eggs
beaten to a stiff froth, cream, sugar and butter; dissolve cornstarch in
milk and add to the sugar and butter; mix flour and baking powder and
add to mixture. Lastly the whites of eggs, well beaten. Bake in a
moderate oven.

FRUITS

Fruit of all kinds
She gathers, tribute large, and on the board
Heaps with unsparing hand.--Milton.

APPLES.

While most people prefer apples cooked in some form, they are very good
and wholesome when eaten raw. There are so many varieties of this fruit
that one finds flavors of almost all other fruits if one tastes a number
of different kinds of apples.

BANANAS.

This is a fruit which is delicious eaten in almost any form. It is
especially good frozen.

CANTALOUPES.

Cantaloupes should be kept on ice and served in halves, each half filled
with chopped ice or peaches, as a breakfast dish. To clean cantaloupes,
scrape out seeds and wash out each half under the cold-water faucet. The
half may be filled wit