Lady's Cake

Ingredients

• Three-fourths of a cupful of butter
• two cupfuls of sugar
• half a cupful of milk
• three cupfuls of pastry flour
• the whites of six eggs
• one teaspoonful of baking powder
• one teaspoonful of essence of almond

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream.

2. 2

   Add the sugar, gradually, then the essence, milk, the whites of eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, and the flour, in which the baking powder has been mixed.

3. 3

   Bake in one large pan or two small ones, and frost, or not, as you please.

4. 4

   If baked in sheets about two inches deep, it will take about twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 158. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lady's Cake. Three-fourths of a cupful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar, half a cupful of milk, three cupfuls of pastry flour, the whites of six eggs, one teaspoonful of baking powder, one teaspoonful of essence of almond

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