Minnehaha Cake

Ingredients

• one cupful and a half of sugar
• half a cupful of butter
• the whites of six eggs or three whole eggs
• two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder
• two heaping cupfuls of flour
• half a cupful of sweet milk
• one tea-cupful of sugar
• a little water
• one cupful of seeded raisins

Method

1. 1

   Bake in three layers.

2. 2

   For filling, boil sugar and water until brittle, stir into beaten egg whites, add chopped raisins, and put between the cakes.

3. 3

   Put plain icing on the top layer.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 141. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MINNEHAHA CAKE. Take one cupful and a half of sugar, half a cupful of butter stirred to a cream, the whites of six eggs or three whole eggs, two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder, two heap- ing cupfuls of flour, and half a cupful of sweet milk. Bake in three layers. For filling, take one tea-cupful of sugar and a little water boiled together until brittle. Stir quickly The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. 277 into the well-beaten whites of three eggs ; add to this one cupful of seeded raisins

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