Cream Cake or Washington Pie

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 5 eggs
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Put the sugar, eggs, and water into a pan and beat them together for a minute or two.

2. 2

   Melt the butter and stir it in, then add the baking powder and flour.

3. 3

   Beat all well together.

4. 4

   Bake thinly spread on jelly cake pans or on a large baking pan to cut in squares.

5. 5

   Spread the same pastry cream between that is directed for cream puffs.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 94. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cream Cake or Washington Pie. Consists of two layers of cake with pastry cream spread between — like jelly cake — and either powdered sugar or plain icing on top. For the cake take 1 cup sugar — 8 ounces. 5 eggs. ■J- cup butter — 4 ounces. \ cup water — large measure. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 3 cups flour

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