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Layer Cake
From Harper's cook book encyclopædia, 1902
Serves 3
A very handsome cake is made by using four sheets and finishing the top with icing made of powdered sugar, white of egg, and syrup.
Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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Ingredients
Method
As published
This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Layer Cake. — Beat the whites of seven eggs until they foam, but are not stiff, until the sugar is added, 2 ozs., which should be beaten in by degrees, until very stiff indeed. The yolks are then beaten with 6 ozs. of sugar and two level teaspoonfuls of vanilla sugar to a thick cream, and the whites stirred lightly in. A quarter of a pound of flour and the same of corn-starch are sifted gradu- ally in and stirred very gently; the butter, % lb.
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