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Excellent Corn-Starch Cake

From Dora's cook book, 1888

Serves 6

Presented as published in 1888. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

EXCELLENT CORN-STARCH CAKE, Three cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup milk, three cups flour, one cup corn-starch, whites of twelve eggs beaten stiff, two teaspoons baking powder

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