Custard or Cream Cake
From Original White House Cookbook, 1887
Serves 10
Make the custard first before the cake part.
Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 194. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
CUSTARD OR CREAM CAKE. Cream together two cups of sugar and half a cup of butter ; add half a cup of sweet milk in which is dissolved half a teaspoonful of soda. Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth and add to the mixture. Have one heaping teaspoonful of cream of tartar stirred thoroughly into three cups of sifted flour
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