Angel Food Cake

Ingredients

• 12 egg whites.
• 11/2 cup sugar.
• 1/4 t-spoon salt.
• 1 scant cup flour.
• 1 t-spoon cream of tartar.
• 1 t-spoon vanilla.

Method

1. 1

   Place the whites in deep bowl, sprinkle in the salt and beat with dover egg beater until entirely stiff.

2. 2

   Stir in cream of tartar.

3. 3

   Next, thoroughly beat in sugar with egg beater or open spoon.

4. 4

   Measure a scant cup of flour, sift three times and remeasure, filling the cup by gently laying in the flour by spoonfuls.

5. 5

   Then fold the flour into the cake mixture, about a third at a time.

6. 6

   Add vanilla and pour mixture into an ungreased tin with a funnel center.

7. 7

   The oven should be quite warm, but not hot, when cake is put in.

8. 8

   Let heat be moderate throughout the baking, which may be from forty to sixty minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Atlanta women's club cook book (1921) by Atlanta woman's club, page 54. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ANGEL FOOD CAKE. 12 egg whites. II/2 cup sugar. 1/4 t-spoon salt. 1 scant cup flour. 1 t-spoon cream of tartar. 1 t-spoon vanilla.

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