Ladies’ Cake (Gateau de Dames) a la Ethel Bayes

Ingredients

• Half cup powdered sugar
• two tablespoons butter
• half cup flour
• three tablespoons potato flour
• whites of four eggs
• a few bitter almonds
• half teaspoon cream of tartar

Method

1. 1

   Wash the butter well free from salt, put in a bowl, add the sugar — stirring to a white rich cream; then add the potato flour and mix well; add, slowly, the flour (that has been sifted with the cream of tartar) and part of the whites of the eggs — well beaten; flavor with the bitter almonds; last add the rest of the beaten whites of eggs.

2. 2

   Bake in a slow oven in a well-papered and buttered pan.

3. 3

   Frost with a water frosting.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Swedish, French, American cook book (1918) by Hammond, Maria Mathilda (Ericsson) Mrs., page 579. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

adies’ Cake ( Gateau de Dames ) a la Ethel Bayes Half cup powdered sugar, two tablespoons butter, half cup flour, three tablespoons potato flour, whites of four eggs, a few bitter almonds, half teaspoon cream of tartar

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