Corn Starch Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sweet milk
• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups flour
• 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
• 1 cup corn starch
• flavor with lemon

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar, eggs, milk, butter, flour, baking powder, corn starch, and lemon flavor.

2. 2

   Bake until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bill of fare for every day in the year ... (1892) by Beatrice Wilde Bryant, page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

i cup butter to a cream, add the ynlks of 2 eggs one at a time and beat well. Stir in the juice of half a lemon, Y2 teaspoonful salt, a little cayenne pepper. When ready to serve, add Vi cup boiling water. Cook in a double boiler, stirring all the time, until thick as custard. SATURDAY, APRIL 29 Breakfast.— Wheat Germ with Cream. Warmed Over Baked Fish. Bread and Butler. Coffee. Dinner. — Cream Celery Soup. Pork Chops. Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Hot Apple Pie. Cheese. Supper.— Lettuce Served with Mayonnaise. Bread and Butter. Jelly. Cake. Tea. Warmed over Baked Fish.— Separate all the fish and dressing from the bones, and mix them together. Season to taste, cook m just enough boiling water to cover, for five minutes, then add enough Hallandaise, same to flavor nicely and spread on thin slices ci hot buttered toast. SUNDAY, APRIL 30 Breakfast.— Oatmeal with Cream. Fried Oysters. Break last Puffs. JJoughnuts. Coffee. Dinner.— Fried Chicken. Gravy. Mashed White Potatoes. Spin- iicli. Bread and Butter. Snow Pudding. Coffee. Supper.— Oyster Stew. Crackers. Thin Bread and Butter. Fruit Cake. Cocoa. Fried Chicken,— Wash the chicken very thoroughly and cut into pieces the desired size. Season them, then roll in tlour and fry them in butter slowly, closely covered, till a rich btown. Cook the giblets m a very little boiling water, save the water in which they were boiled, chop them and add them and the water to the gravy, which must be made of cream and the browned butter in which the chicken was fried. Serve the chicken on small pieces of buttered toast. FRIDAY, Breakfast— Oatmeal with Cream. Rolls. Coffee. Dinner — Fried Sword Fish Steak. and Butter. Cup Custard. Supper— Soused Mackerel. Bread and with Cream. Cake. Tea. SEPT. Soft Boiled Eggs. Hot Boiled Potatoes. Corn. Bread Butter. Baked Apples Soused Mackerel. — Soak salt mackerel 48 hours in water, changing water frequently. Then boil the tish very carefully a few minutes, that it may not break. Place tish in a jar, add a teaspoon- ful of whole mustard, a few cloves, a few raw onions sliced. Pour hot vinegar over, cover tight. This will be ready for use in 4S hours. SATURDAY, SEPT. Creamed Fish. Breakfast— Wheat Germ with Cream. ^^^ Bread and Butter, Coffee. ^^^ Dinner— Broiled Meat Cakes. Potatoes. Succotash. Bread and Butter. Banana Cream. Supper— Baked Beans. Boston Brown Bread. Cut up Peaches. Cake. Tea. Banana Cream. — Boil a pint of milk, i cup sug^r, stir a heap- ing tablespoonful of corn starch in a cup of milk and add to the boiling; liquid. Beat an egg light and stir in. When all has come to a bnil remove from the fire and [.our half the mixture into a glass pudding dish, let cool on the ice. Slice two large bananas on top and then pour on the rest of the custard. When firm, add another layer of sliced bananas, serve with powdered sugar. SUNDAY, SEPT. Breakfast — Oatmeal with Cream. Salt Fish Balls. ^^B Creamed Potatoes. Hot Rolls. Coffee. ^^ Dinner— Roast of Lamb. Gravy. Mint Sauce. Peas. Potatoes. Baked Corn. Bread and Butter. Frozen Peaches. Supper— Dip Toast. Baked Pears. Bread and Butter. Cake. Cocoa. — Dip Toast. — Have a shallow pan containing i quart of boiling water and a teaspoonful salt. Dip each slice of dry toast quickly in the water, then pile on a hot platter, butter and serve hot. MONDAY, SEPT. Breakfast— Hominy with Cream. Minced Lamb on Toast. Bread and Butler. Coffee. Dinner— Corned Beef. Cabbage. Potatoes. Beets. Bread and Butter. Peach Fritters. 5upper— Cold Sliced Corned Beef. Bread and Butter. Cut up Peaches. Cake. Tea. Peach Fritters. — i cup flour, i teaspoonful baking powder sifted in it. Make a very thick batter with % cup milk, two eggs, beaten light, }i cup sugar, a pinch of salt. Beat all together and add as many cut up peaches as you can. Drop by the spoonful in boiling lard, serve hot with powdered sugar. TUESDAY, SEPT. Horn- Breakfast— Corned Beef Hash. Bread and Butter. ^^ iny Cakes with Syrup. Coffee. ^^^ Dinner— Ragout of Veal. Curried Rice. Potatoes. Bread and But- ter. Cocoanut Pudding. Supper -Sliced Veal. Thin Bread and Butter. Baked Apples. Corn Starch Cake. Chocolate. Corn Starch Cake. — 2 cups sugar, 3 eggs, i cup sweet milk, i cup butter, 2 cups flour, 3 teaspoonfuls bakmg powder, 1 cup corn starch, flavor with lemon

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