Delicate Cake

Name: Delicate Cake
Yield: 5 servings
Ingredients: One cup of cornstarch; one of butter; two of sugar; one of sweet milk; two of flour; the whites of seven eggs; one teaspoonful cream of tartar; one-half teaspoonful of soda

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 5

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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 188. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DELICATE CAKE. One cup of cornstarch, one of butter, two of sugar, one of sweet milk, two of flour, the whites of seven eggs; rub butter and sugar to a cream; mix one teaspoonful cream of tartar with the flour and cornstarch; one- half teaspoonful soda w

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