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Delicate Cake

From Statesmen's dishes; and how to cook them, 1890

For loaf.

Presented as published in 1890. 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 Statesmen's dishes; and how to cook them (1890) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DELICATE CAKE. BY MRS. H. C. M'CORMICK. (Wife of Representative from Pennsylvania.) SjHREE-FOURTHS cup of butter, two cups fine granulated sugar, beaten well together; one cup of sweet milk, three cups flour, two tea- spoonfuls of baking powder and the whites of eight eggs

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