Cornstarch Cake

Ingredients

• Half cup butter
• one cup sugar
• half cup milk
• half cup cornstarch
• one cup flour
• two and a quarter teaspoons baking powder
• whites two and a half eggs
• three-eighths teaspoon vanilla or one-quarter teaspoon almond extract

Method

1. 1

   Measure dry ingredients, and mix and sift baking powder with flour and cornstarch.

2. 2

   Measure butter, then liquid.

3. 3

   Cream butter, then add sugar gradually, and continue beating.

4. 4

   Add liquid and flour, baking powder and cornstarch, flavoring.

5. 5

   Add the whites of eggs last, which have been beaten light and dry.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cornstarch Cake Half cup butter, one cup sugar, half cup milk, half cup cornstarch, one cup flour, two and a quarter teaspoons baking powder, whites two and a half eggs, three-eighths teaspoon vanilla or one-quarter teaspoon almond extract

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