Caramel Cake

Ingredients

• Whites of eight eggs, beaten stiff
• two cups sugar
• one cup butter
• one cup sweet milk
• three and one-half cups of flour
• heaping teaspoonful of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Put together with the following caramel filling: One pint brown sugar, with sufficient sweet milk to start cooking well; lump of butter size of an egg; let this boil until almost the consistency of molasses.

2. 2

   Let cool slightly and flavor with vanilla.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Caramel Cake. — Whites of eight eggs, beaten stiff; two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three and one-half cups of flour, with heaping teaspoonful of baking powder

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