Delicious Swans Down Cake

Ingredients

• 14. cupful butter, or substitute
• 1.cupful sugar
• > cupful milk
• 1 teaspoonful vanilla
• 2tupfuls SWANS DOWN CAKE FLOUR
• 3 egg whites

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, gradually add sugar, creaming mixture well.

2. 2

   Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt and sift three times.

3. 3

   Add the flour and milk alternately to the creamed butter and sugar, beating batter hard between each addition of flour and milk.

4. 4

   Add vanilla extract.

5. 5

   Fold in the stiffly-beaten egg-whites and bake in a loaf or two layers in a moderate oven.

6. 6

   Ice as desired.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Carolina cookery from Quaker kitchens (1924) by High Point Friends Meeting. Woman's Auxiliary, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DELICIOUS SWANS DOWN CAKE ries 14. cupful butter, or substitute 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder 1.cupful sugar 14 teaspoonful salt > cupful milk 1 teaspoonful vanilla = -, 2tupfuls SWANS DOWN CAKE FLOUR 3 egg whites

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