Delicate Cake

Name: Delicate Cake
Yield: 10 servings
Ingredients: one and one-half cupfuls of white sugar; half a cupful of butter; half a cupful of sweet milk; half a teaspoonful of soda; two cupfuls of flour; one teaspoonful of cream of tartar; the whites of four eggs

From Twentieth century home cook book, 1905

Serves 10

Will make a two-quart basin loaf.

Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Twentieth century home cook book (1905) by Francis Carruthers, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Delicate Cake. — Take one and one-half cupfuls of white sugar, half a cupful of butter; rub these to a cream. Add half a cupful of sweet milk, in which dis- solve half a teaspoonful of soda, and two cupfuls of flour, in which rub one teaspoonfu] of cream of tartar; add a little salt and flavor with vanilla or lemon. Beat the whites of four eggs

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