Cornstarch Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sweet milk
• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• 1 cup flour sifted
• 1 teasp cream tartar
• 1/2 teasp soda
• whites of 3 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar and butter, add milk, cornstarch, flour with cream tartar and soda, then beaten whites.

2. 2

   Use for layer or loaf cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

/4 cup butter with 1 cup white sugar, add % cup milk, 1 1/^ cups flour sifted with 1 teasp baking powder, and flavor with lemon extract. Lastly add the beaten whites of 4 eggs. For the gold cake cream l^ cup butter or any good shortening with 1 cup brown sugar, add the yolks of 4 eggs, l^ cup milk, and 2 cups flour sifted with 1^/^ teasp baking powder. Flavor with vanilla. These are two fine cakes and the recipes have never failed me. — [Mrs. W. C, Mich. Huckleberry Cake To 1 cup sugar add 3 tablesp butter, 1 egg, % cup milk, 2 cups flour sifted with 2 teasp baking powder. Lastly stir in 1 pt fresh huckleberries. Bake in a square, shallow tin. This is nice warm or cold, and may be eaten' with or without sauce, as preferred. — [Mrs. E. E. S., Pa. Blackberry Cake Cream i/4 cup butter with 1 cup sugar, add 2 eggs, (saving out the white of one for icing), 4 tablesp cold water, 1 cup cooked blackberries, juice and all, and 2 cups flour sifted with 1 teasp each soda and cinnamon, and % teasp cloves. Bake in two layers and put together with any preferred icing. This cake may also be baked in patty pans, the tops scooped out when cold, and the cakes filled with sweetened whipped cream. It is nice to serve these little cakes for dessert with a generous portion of whipped cream heaped about them on the plates. Do not whip the cream until shortly before serving. — [Mrs. E. E. S., Pa. Fresh Fruit Cake This cake can be made with fresh berries of any kind, or ivith pitted cherries. Cream 1 cup butter with 2 cups sugar, add 3 beaten eggs, 1 pt milk and enough flour to make a stifC 48 FARM AND HOME COOK BOOK batter, sifted with 3 teasp baking powder. Then dredge the fruit with flour and stir in batter the last thing. Bake in dripping pan. This is nice eaten warm, with butter or cream. [Mrs. O. T., Mich. Cornstarch Cake Cream 1 cup sugar with ^^ cup butter, add ^ cup sweet milk, ^ cup cornstarch and 1 cup flour sifted with 1 teasp cream tartar and scant i/^ teasp soda. Flavor to taste and lastly add beaten whites of 3 eggs

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