Cake for Sunday Evening

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• % cup water
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• the stiffly beaten whites of 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   In a mixing bowl cream butter; add sugar and beat until very creamy.

2. 2

   To this mixture add alternately water and flour, with which baking powder has been sifted; beat well.

3. 3

   Now fold in the stiffly beaten whites of eggs and vanilla.

4. 4

   Bake the cake either in layers or in a loaf.

5. 5

   This cake requires about 15 minutes in a moderate oven if baked in layers, or from 25 to 30 if baked in a loaf.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lessons in cooking through preparation of meals (1912) by Eva Roberta Robinson, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cake for Sunday Evening In a mixing bowl cream ^ cup butter ; to it add ^ cup sugar and beat until very creamy. To this mixture add al- ternately % cup water and i^ cups flour, with which 3 tea- spoons baking powder has been sifted ; beat well. Now fold in the stiffly beaten whites of 3 eggs, left from the day before when the yolks were used for the salad dressing, and i tea- spoon vanill

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