Flag Cake

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup Crisco
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• whites of 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cream Crisco and sugar, add flour, salt, baking powder, milk, vanilla, and beaten egg whites.

2. 2

   Bake in a Criscoed tin for 34 of an hour.

3. 3

   Decorate with frosting and tiny flags.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 115. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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