Layer Cake

Ingredients

• eight eggs
• one-half pound of flour
• one-quarter pound of melted butter
• a few drops of vanilla extract

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs with sugar over slow fire until warm, then beat until cold.

2. 2

   Mix in flour, melted butter, and vanilla.

3. 3

   Bake in buttered flat tin cake molds for about ten minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Hotel St. Francis cook book (1919) by Hirtzler, Victor., page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

layer cake Coffee DINNER Strained gumbo soup, in cups Radishes Barracouda, maitre d'hotel Stuffed capon, Bruxelloise Asparagus, Hollandaise Champs Elysees potatoes Hearts of romaine, Roquefort dressing Chocolate parfait Lady fingers Coffee Omelet with Virginia ham and peppers. Cut two slices of Virginia ham and one green pepper in small squares, put in frying pan with one ounce of butter, and simmer for about two minutes. Add eight beaten eggs and two red peppers cut in small squares, season with salt and pepper, and proceed in the same manner as for a plain omelet. Calf's head, vinaigrette. Dish up on a napkin some boiled calf's head with the brains and the tongue sliced. Garnish the platter with pickles, pickled beets, quartered lemons, parsley in branches, and two hard-boiled eggs cut in two. Serve vinaigrette sauce separate. Strained gumbo soup, in cups. Make a chicken okra soup, strain through cheese cloth, and serve in cups. Stuffed capon, Bruxelloise. Soak half of a loaf of white bread in milk, then squeeze out the milk, mince fine, add salt and pepper, a little chopped parsley, one pound of finely chopped salted almonds, and one egg. Mix well together and fill the capon. Tie a slice of fresh fat pork over the breast, and roast in the same manner as chicken or other fowl. Layer cake. Eight eggs, one-half pound of flour, one-quarter pound of melted butter, and a few drops of vanilla extract

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