Bride's Angel Food Cake

Ingredients

• whites of 18 eggs
• 1 pound sugar
• 1 pound sifted flour
• % pound butter
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour three times, and add soda and cream of tartar, then cream butter and sugar until very light and add to the stiffly-beaten whites of eggs gradually.

2. 2

   Add the flour beating it lightly, flavor with teaspoon of vanilla.

3. 3

   Place in angel food pan and bake in a slow oven (250° F.).

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Southern cook book of fine old recipes (1935) by Lillie S. Lustig, page 45. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bride's Angel Food Cake whites of 18 eggs 1 pound sugar 1 pound sifted flour % pound butter 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 teaspoons cream of tartar 1 teaspoon vanilla

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