Corn-Starch Cake

Ingredients

• Four eggs, whites only
• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup corn-starch
• 1 1/4 cup sweet milk
• 1 cup flour
• 2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder
• lemon or rosewater flavoring

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar thoroughly either with the hand or a silver spoon; mix the corn-starch with the milk and add; then add the eggs, beaten stiff, next the sifted flour, into which the baking-powder has been stirred.

2. 2

   Put into well greased mould and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The white ribbon cook book (1894) by Kathryn Armstrong, page 82. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Corn-Starch Cake — Four eggs, whites only; 1 cup butter, % cup corn-starch, i-^ cup sweet milk, 1 cup flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder, lemon or rosewater flavoring

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