Delicate Cake

Ingredients

• one pound of powdered sugar
• one-half pound of butter with the salt washed out
• three-quarters of a pound of flour
• the whites of twelve eggs
• one tea-spoonful of baking-powder sifted through the flour
• one wine-glassful of whisky stirred in at the last

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and one half of the sugar together, beat the eggs to a stiff froth, then beat in the other half pound of sugar.

2. 2

   Add the flour and beaten eggs to the butter and sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 136. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DELICATE CAKE. Take one pint of butter with salt washed out, two pints of powdered sugar, three and one-half pints of sifted iiour, one pint of sweet milk, the whites of twelve eggs, two tea- 268 The New Kentucky Home Cook Boo!:. spoonfuls of Royal baking-powder. Flavor with vanilla or a few drops of bitter almonds. Cream the butter and sugar together until very light, then pour in the milk and flour, and beat well. Sprinkle the baking-powder over the beaten whites, and stir lightly through the batter. Bake for one and one-half hour in a moderate oven. When done, turn out on a clean towel to cool. ^[iss Lottie AVood. LADY CAKE. Two pounds of butter with the salt washed out, two and one-half pounds of powdered sugar, the whites of twelve eggs beaten very light, adding a portion of the eggs at a time until all are added. Mix in two and one-half pounds of flour lightly, two ounces of bitter almonds rubbed very fine or three drops of almond oil. Fill the mold, and bake for two hours in a moderate oven. This is called Lady's Wedding Cake. If made according to directions, it will be excellent. F. H. Traxel. WHITE FRUIT CAKE. Take one cupful of butter, two cupfuls of powdered sugar, two and one-half cupfuls of flour, the whites of seven eggs, two tea-spoonfuls of Royal baking-powder, one pound each of figs, dates with the seeds taken out and chopped fine, and blanched almonds, one-fourth pound of citron cut into small pieces. Sift flour over the fruit. After the cake is mixed, put the fruit iu. This makes a large cake, and it should be baked slowly about two and one-half hours. Xew York Bazar. SNOW CAKE. Take the whites of ten eggs, one and one-half cupful of powdered sugar, one cupful of flour, a small tea-spoonful of cream of tartar, one-half tea-spoonful of soda. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, sift the sugar on them, mix the cream of tartar through the flour, then the soda. Stir the flour, sugar, and eggs lightly together. Gr. W. Geisel. The New Kentucky Home Cook Booh. 269 DELICATE CAKE. Take the whites of fourteen eggs, one-half pound of but- ter after the salt is washed out, even three-fourths pound of flour, one pound of powdered sugar, one tea-spoonful of bak- ing-powder sifted through the flour. Cream the butter un- til light, add the sugar, and beat them well together. Add the whites of eggs and flour alternately, having previously beaten the eggs till stiff. Flavor with two or three drops of bitter almonds. Grease the pan and have greased paper in the bottom — light brown paper is the best. Set it in an oven in which you can bear your hand, to rise for one hour, then bake in a moderately hot oven for half an hour. Mrs. Nannie Yeaman. PERFECTION CAKE. Take three cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of butter with the salt washed out, one cupful of sweet milk, three cupfuls of sifted flour, one cupful of corn starch, the whites of twelve eggs beaten to a stiff froth, two tea-spoonfuls of bak- ing-powder. Dissolve the com starch in half of the milk, cream the butter and sugar well together, then the milk and flour, last the eggs and baking-powder. Bake for one hour in a moderate oven. Mrs. Keith. WHITE CAKE. Take the whites of twenty-four eggs, beat five cupfuls of powdered sugar into them after they are frothed, cream two cupfuls of butter and six cupfuls of sifted flour together, then add the sugar and eggs, two tea-spoonfuls of baking- powder. Flavor to taste. Mrs. H. Bierbower. DELICATE CAKE. Take one pound of powdered sugar, one-half pound of butter with the salt washed out, three-quarters of a pound of flour, the whites of twelve eggs. Cream the butter and 270 The New Kentucky Home CooJ: Book. one half of the sugar together, beat the eggs to a stiff froth, then beat in the other half pound of sugar. Add the flour and beaten eggs to the butter and sugar, with one wine- glassful of whisky stirred in at the last

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