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Cake, A Light

Name: Cake, A Light
Yield: 5 servings
Ingredients: one pound of butter; one pound of sugar; the yolks of six eggs; half a pint of milk; a pound of flour; two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar

From Recipes for the million, 1891

Serves 5

Presented as published in 1891. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CAKE, A Light. — Take one pound of butter, work it till soft, gradually mixing with it one pound of sugar ; then beat up the yolks of six eggs and put with the butter and sugar ; add half a pint of milk, a pound of flour, and two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar

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