Feather Cake

Ingredients

• One and one-fourth cups granulated sugar
• 2-3 cup Snowdrift
• 1 level teaspoon salt
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 1/2 cups sifted flour
• 2 rounding teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon extract

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar and Snowdrift well together and add salt; beat the eggs in one at a time, then add water, sift in flour with baking powder, and beat until smooth.

2. 2

   Bake in 2 layers.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Henderson cook book (1914) by First Baptist Church (Henderson, N.C.). Ladies' Aid Society, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4 eggs, reserving whites of 2 for icing; 2 table- spoons cinnamon, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon soda. Bake in layers and put together with white icing. — Mrs. J. H. ParJuim. * SPICE CAKE. One cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon of ground cloves, 1 teaspoon ground allspice, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 LAYER CAKES 127 cup cold boiled coffee, 2 cups of flour with 2 teaspoons of Royal baking powder sifted with the flour. Cream together butter and sugar, adding eggs 1 at a time. Beat well, add spices and coffee, then add flour and ibake. — Miss Sarah Ed- wards. FEATHEK, CAKE. One and one-fourth cups granulated sugar, 2-3 cup Snow- drift, 1 level teaspoon salt, 4 eggs, y2 cup water, 2y2 cups sifted flour, 2 rounding teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon extract

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