top-of-the-milk

Updated: May 23, 2025

And another time it was the flaky spider-cake, turned just as it blushed golden-tawny over the coals; and then it was breakfast potato, beaten almost frothy with one white-of-egg, a pretty good bit of butter, a few spoonfuls of top-of-the-milk, and seasoned plentifully with salt, and delicately with pepper, the oven doing the rest, and turning it into a snowy soufflé.

A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney - We Girls: a Home Story