Dolly Varden Cake

Ingredients

• one-half cup butter
• one cup sugar
• one-half cup milk
• one and one-half cup of flour
• one teaspoonful baking powder
• the dry-beaten whites of three eggs
• flavor to taste
• one and one-half cup sugar
• eight table spoonfuls water

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add milk and flour alternately.

2. 2

   Fold in egg whites and flavor.

3. 3

   Bake for half an hour.

4. 4

   For icing, boil sugar and water, add beaten yolks, and beat until thick.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 71. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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