Ames Cake

Ingredients

• One generous cupful of butter
• two of sugar
• three cupfuls of pastry flour
• one small cupful of milk
• the yolks of five eggs
• whites of three
• one teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• half a teaspoonful of soda
• one and a half teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• one teaspoonful of lemon extract
• the juice of one fresh lemon

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream.

2. 2

   Add the sugar, gradually, then the seasoning, the eggs, well beaten, next the milk and then the flour, in which the soda and cream of tartar are mixed.

3. 3

   Mix thoroughly, but quickly, and bake in two sheets in a moderate oven for twenty-five or thirty minutes.

4. 4

   Cover with a frosting made by stirring two small cupfuls of powdered sugar into the whites of two eggs, and seasoning with lemon.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 158. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Ames Cake. One generous cupful of butter, two of sugar, three cupfuls of pastry flour, one small cupful of milk, the yolks of five eggs and whites of three, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda, or one and a half teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of lemon extract, or the juice of one fresh lemon

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