Angels' Food

Ingredients

• One cupful of flour
• One and a-half cupful of granulated sugar
• Eleven eggs (whites)
• One tea-spoonful of vanilla
• One tea-spoonful of cream of tartar

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour four times; then measure it, and add the cream of tartar, and sift four times more.

2. 2

   Sift the sugar through the flour-sieve three times.

3. 3

   Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff, dry froth, and add the sugar a little at a time, and then the flour and the vanilla.

4. 4

   Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven.

5. 5

   Do not butter the pan at all.

6. 6

   Lay a paper on the bottom, leaving it unoiled also.

7. 7

   When done turn the cake upside down, place the pan bottom upward, and lay the cake upon it.

8. 8

   Frost the bottom of the cake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 229. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

angels' food. One cupful of flour. One and a-haif cupful of granulated sugar. Eleven eggs (whites). One tea-spoonful of vanilla. (^ne tea-spoonful of cream of tartar

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