English White Mountain Cake

Ingredients

• One pound of sugar
• One-half pound of butter
• One-half pint of the whites of eggs
• One-half pint of milk
• One and a-quarter pound of flour
• Two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and sugar together to form a cream, and add the milk.

2. 2

   Sift the powder with the flour, and add this to the mixture; lastly, add the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth.

3. 3

   Bake three-quarters of an hour in a large, well buttered tin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 228. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ENGLISH WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE. One pound of sugar. One-half pound of butter. One-half pint of the whites of eggs. One-half pint of milk. One and a-quarter pound of flour. Two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder

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