Baker's Cake

Ingredients

• one cup of butter
• two cups of granulated sugar
• the yolks of six eggs
• one cup of sweet milk
• three cups of sifted flour
• three teaspoons of baking powder
• two teaspoons of vanilla
• the juice of one lemon

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add yolks one at a time.

2. 2

   Mix in warmed milk and flour gradually.

3. 3

   Fold in beaten egg whites and baking powder.

4. 4

   Bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The home cook book (1905) by Christine Frederick, page 166. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two teaspoons of vanilla to taste. Mix one scant even teaspoon of cream of tartar into one tumbler of flour. Sift it four times, the last time sift into the eggs and sugar and mix together. Put in a round pan with circular metal rising in the centre. The pan should not be greased. Bake in a moderate oven until a straw thrust in will come out clean — that is, twenty or twenty-five minutes. Bake a very light brown, and delicately. ANGEL FOOD Sift together four times a cup of flour (measure after sift- ing) and a teaspoon of cream of tartar. Beat the whites of eleven eggs to a stiff froth, and then beat in gradually a cup and a half of granulated sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla. Next put in the flour which you have sifted with the cream of tartar and beat lightly. Bake slowly forty minutes in a pan lightly dredged with flour, or in an earthenware dish. The cake should bake gradually. DRIED APPLE CAKE Put to soak overnight a cup and a half of evaporated apples. Stew them soft in half a cup of molasses the next day, and set away to cool. Stir together half a cup of butter and one cup of sugar. Add two-thirds of a cup of sour milk, the stewed apples, two well-beaten eggs, a teaspoon each of cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon, and three cups of flour into which you have sifted a teaspoon of finely pulverized soda. Stir hard. Have at hand a cup of seeded raisins, two-thirds of a cup of currants, and some thin slices of shredded citron. Spread a layer of the cake batter in your cake tin, then put in a layer of your mixed raisins, currants, and citron. Next a layer of batter and then a layer of fruit, and so on till you cap the cake with a layer of batter. Bake carefully in a moderate oven. ICING, FILLING, CAKE 805 BAKER'S CAKE Cream together one cup of butter with two cups of granulated sugar. Add the yolks of six eggs, beating in one yolk at a time. Add little by little one cup of sweet milk, which you have warmed. Then put in three cups of sifted flour little at a time, stirring constantly until all is well mixed. Add the whites of the eggs which you have beaten to a stiff froth, folding them in gradually, and last of all three teaspoons of baking powder. Flavor with two tea- spoons of vanilla, or the juice of one lemon

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