Marble Cake

Ingredients

• one coffee-cupful of butter with the salt washed out
• three cupfuls of powdered sugar
• five cupfuls of sifted flour
• half a cupful of sweet milk
• the whites of eight eggs
• two tea-spoonfuls of Royal baking-powder

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and eggs together, then add the milk and flour, and last the whites of the eggs and baking-powder.

2. 2

   Put into the pan, in alternate layers, white, then dark.

3. 3

   Bake an hour and a half in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 138. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MARBLE CAKE. White Part. — Take one coffee-cupful of butter with the salt washed out, three cupfuls of powdered sugar, five cupfuls of sifted flour, half a cupful of sweet milk, the whites of eight eggs, and two tea-spoonfuls of Royal baking-powder

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