Bride’s Cake

Ingredients

• Whites of twelve eggs
• three cups sugar
• one small cup butter
• one cup sweet milk
• four cups flour
• one-half cup corn starch
• two teaspoons baking powder
• essence of lemon to taste

Method

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   By adding one cup of citron cut very thin and dusted with flour you have a nice citron cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Twin-city housewife (1920) by N.C.) International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons. Whatsoever Circle (Winston-Salem, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bride’s Cake Whites of twelve eggs, three cups sugar, one small cup butter, one cup sweet milk, four cups flour, one-half cup corn starch, two tea- spoons baking powder, essence of lemon to taste. By adding one cup of citron cut very thin and dusted with flour you have a nice citron cake.—Mrs. H. L. Riggins. Chocolate Cake Two cups yellow sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, with one-half teaspoon soda, one cup grated Baker’s chocolate, five eggs (leaving out the whites of two), three cups flour. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add milk, eggs, chocolate, and lastly the flour. Bake in layers. Make a soft frosting of the whites of two eggs and two cups granulated sugar. Boil the sugar with water until it can be rolled into a ball, then pour over the well-beaten whites. Flavor and beat until cool—Mrs. Brandenburg. Chocolate Cake One cup grated chocolate, one cup sugar, one-half cup milk, yolk of one egg. Boil all together until it thickens. While this mixture is cooling make a cake of one cup of sugar, one-half cup butter, one- half cup milk, two and one-half cups flour (measure after it is sifted), two teaspoons baking powder

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