Feather Cake

Name: Feather Cake
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: Beat to a cream one-half cup of butter; add to it two of sugar; one cup of milk; one teaspoonful of soda; one cup of sifted flour; two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar; the well beaten yolk of three eggs; two more cups of flour

From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886

Serves 4

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 364. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FEATHER CAKE. Beat to a cream one-half cup of butter, add to it two of sugar and beat well together ; one cup of milk with one teaspoonful of soda dis- solved in it ; beat well together ; then add one cup of sifted flour with two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, previously rubbed into it ; add next the well beaten yolk of three eggs, beat the whites separately until stiff, add them and then two more cups of flour

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