A Quick Cake

Ingredients

• Whites of 4 eggs
• i cup of sugar
• ^ cup of milk
• ^ cup of butter
• ^ cup of corn starch
• i^/^ cups of flour
• 2 teaspoons of powder
• i teaspoons of Sauer's ahnond extract

Method

1. 1

   This cake must be baked in a very quick oven, or it will be a failure.

2. 2

   Put in an earthenware bowl the whites of the eggs, without beating them; add the sugar, the butter that has been softened, the sifted flour, corn starch and powders, milk and flavoring.

3. 3

   After all ingredients are in, begin beating, and continue until the batter is smooth and creamy.

4. 4

   Bake in a shallow pan and ice with anything you like.

5. 5

   This cake is one of the best made, and one of the easiest if the directions are followed.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The way to the heart (1905) by Carrie Pickett Moore, page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

A Quick Cake, Whites of 4 eggs, i cup of sugar, ^ cup of milk, ^ cup of butter, ^ cup of corn starch, i^/^ cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of powder, i teaspoons of Sauer's ahnond extract

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