Golden Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup water
• 18 yolks
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 6 cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Beat the yolks, sugar, and water together for 5 minutes.

2. 2

   Melt the butter and beat it in, then add the baking powder and flour.

3. 3

   Heat for five more minutes.

4. 4

   Bake in one mold or shallow pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 290. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

f cup water or broth. Season rather highly with pepper, mushroom or wal- nut catsup^ thyme and grated lemon peel, add the minced chicken, which makes a stiff sort of sausage meat; set it away to get cold. When cool enough make in shape like corks of champagne bottles. Cut bacon slices as thin as possible ; roll up the mince in a slice of bacon, dip in batter and fry light colored. Serve with sauce. 962— White Italian iauce. ^ Make butter sauce and use mushroom liquor from the cans instead of water. Let the sauce be rather thinner than the usual butter sauce. Slice button mush- rooms, about a dozen to a pint of sauce, and put in, and a spoonful of minced parsley. Same as Venetian sauce except the lemon juice. 963— Corn in the Ear. Leave a few of the husks on the ears and drop them that way into a boiler of salted water. Boil about half an hour. When to be served take hold with a clean napkin and pull off husks and silk. ^ Take a knife and cut out one row of grains by drawing the point down both sides ; then send in the ears. 964— Potato Cream Pie. 2 large cups mashed potato — a pound, I cup sugar — ^ pound. Small cup butter— 6 ounces. Seggs. y-i cup milk. Flavoring of some kind. Boil good mealy potatoes and mash them through a sieve; mix the butter in while warm, then sugar, milk and llavor- ing. Separate the eggs and beat both yolks and whites guite light and sti^ them t just before baking. Ma' es three me- -Irora Di&s, open like pumpkin pies. Sift COOKING FOR PROFIT. 141 powdered sugar over when done. If you use brandy or wine in any dishes put ^ cup in the above mixture; if not use vanilla or nutmeg and a trifle more milk. 965— Go den Cake. 2 cups sugar — i pound light. I cup butter ^ pound. I cup water. 18 yolks— about i^ cups. 4 teaspoons bakinsj powder. 6 cups flour

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