Gold Cake

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• % teaspoonful salt
• 1 cupful sugar
• V2 teaspoonful flavoring
• 4 tablespoonfuls cold water
• 1 cupful pastry flour
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder
• % to % cupful bread flour
• 4 tablespoonfuls melted butter

Method

1. 1

   Beat the eggs without separating until light and foamy.

2. 2

   Stir in the sugar and beat thoroughly, then add the cold water and beat again.

3. 3

   Sift together the pastry or bread flour, baking powder and salt.

4. 4

   Add this to the cake mixture and beat again.

5. 5

   When light, pour in the melted butter and flavoring and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Gold Cake 3 eggs % teaspoonful salt 1 cupful sugar V2 teaspoonful flavoring 4 tablespoonfuls cold water 1 cupful pastry flour or 1 teaspoonful baking powder % to % cupful bread flour 4 tablespoonfuls melted butter

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