Five-Minute Cake (Gateau de Vitesse)

Ingredients

• Three eggs
• four tablespoons powdered sugar
• four tablespoons flour
• two tablespoons butter (melted)
• one teaspoon Royal baking powder
• two tablespoons brandy

Method

1. 1

   Stir yolks of eggs and sugar to a souffle, add the butter, beat the whites to a stiff meringue, add part of the whites, then flour, baking powder, and brandy.

2. 2

   Mix well, last add the rest of the whites.

3. 3

   Butter and paper a loaf pan and fill; bake in a hot oven from twelve to fifteen minutes.

4. 4

   This can also be made in small cake tins.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Swedish, French, American cook book (1918) by Hammond, Maria Mathilda (Ericsson) Mrs., page 577. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one teaspoon Royal baking powder, three tablespoons cornstarch, and a pinch of salt. How to Make It. Add sugar slowly to the yolks. Beat to a souffle for fifteen minutes, add cold water and brandy and the whites — well beaten. Sift flour, baking powder, and cornstarch and add. Bake in a well-buttered and papered pan about thirty minutes; frost with a wThite boiled frosting. Five-Minute Cake ( Gateau de Vitesse ,) a la Ethel Three eggs, four tablespoons powdered sugar, four tablespoons flour, twTo tablespoons butter (melted), one teaspoon Royal bak¬ ing powder, two tablespoons brandy

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