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Dainty Cakes

From Bread, cakes, and biscuits, 1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Bread, cakes, and biscuits (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4oz. fresh butter with Jib. caster sugar ; sift together 4oz. corn flour and 6oz. wheat flour, with a teaspoonful of cream of tartar and half a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda, then mix this lightly to the creamed butter in alternate spoonfuls with the stiffly-whipped whites of eight eggs

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