Empress Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cupful of butter
• 2 cupfuls of fine sugar
• 1/2 cupful of cornstarch
• 1 cupful of milk
• whites of 5 eggs
• 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• 1 cupfuls of Dousman's Kcho pastry flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter, add sugar slowly, and heat.

2. 2

   Add cornstarch to the flour, then add alternately to the butter with milk.

3. 3

   Heat until smooth, add beaten egg whites and baking powder, and bake in a loaf pan.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Superior cook book (1905) by Grace Church (Ishpeming, Mich.), page 95. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.