Geranium Cake

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup water
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder
• whites 4 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, salt, and baking powder.

2. 2

   Cream butter and sugar.

3. 3

   Add alternately the water and flour, then whites of eggs, and whip hard for 5 minutes.

4. 4

   Line loaf-pan with buttered paper, then with rose-geranium leaves.

5. 5

   Bake in a moderate oven.

6. 6

   The leaves can be pulled off with the paper.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The royal baker and pastry cook (1902) by New York Cooking School, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

i cup butter, % cup sweet milk. IMi cups flour, V4 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, hi cup corn- starch, whites C eggs. Put together as for corn- starch cake, and bake in 2 shallow oblong pans in a quick oven. Put together with fig filling (see Cake Fillings). French Cake. — \hi cups butter, 2 cups sugar, 12 eggs, 1 quart flour, V2 teaspoon Roj^al Bak- ing Powder, 1 gill each of cream, wine, and brandy, 20 drops each extract bitter almonds and nutmeg, 1% cups raisins, stoned, % cup almonds, blanched, 1 cup chopped citron. Rub butter and sugar to a white, light cream ; add the eggs, 2 at a time, beating 10 minutes be- tween the first 3 additions, and 5 minutes between the rest; add the flour, sifted with the powder, raisins, almonds, citron, extracts, cream, wine, and brandy. Mix into a smooth, consistent batter; bake in a thickly paper- lined cake-pan (fig. XIII), in a steady oven, 2 hours. Light Fruit Cake. — V2 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, hi cup milk, 2 cups flour, Ihi teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, whites 4 eggs, % cup seeded raisins, hi cup sliced citron, Mi cup chopped blanched almonds, teaspoon salt. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Dredge fruit with flour. Cream butter and sugar, add beaten whites, and beat hard ; add flour and milk and beat again ; stir in the prepared fruit. Line a loaf-pan with 3 thicknesses of paper, and bake cake Ihi hours in moderate oven, covering with paper for first hour. Geranium Cake. — hi cup butter, 1 cup sugar, % cup water, V4 teaspoon salt, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, whites 4 eggs

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