SILVER Cake
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 26 Feb 1857 p 3
Silver Cake – Stir to a cream one cup of butter with two of sugar. Add the white of six eggs beaten to a stiff froth, one cup of milk with one half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it and flour so as to make it stiff as pound cake. With the flour stir in one teaspoonful of cream of tarter. Flavor as you please with nutmeg, lemon or rose water.