White Layer Cake (Mrs. George H. Patch)

Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 1 cup butter
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 7 whole eggs

Instructions

1. Sift two teaspoonfuls baking powder through three and a half cups flour, measured before sifting.
2. Cream a cup of butter with two and one half cups sugar.
3. Add a cup of rich milk, and beat hard.
4. Then add gradually the flour, following it with the whites of seven eggs beaten very stiff with a small pinch of salt.
5. Fold in lightly, and bake in three layers.
6. Put together with orange filling, or frosting made thick with nuts and minced figs.