Minnehaha Cake

Name: Minnehaha Cake
Ingredients: one and a half cups of granulated sugar; half cup butter; whites of six eggs; two cups flour; one teaspoon and a half baking powder; half cup sweet milk; one cup of sugar; three tablespoons water; the well-beaten whites of two eggs

From Statesmen's dishes; and how to cook them, 1890

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Statesmen's dishes; and how to cook them (1890) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MINNEHAHA CAKE. BY MBS. ¥1. P. HEPBT7EN. (Wife of the Solicitor of the Treasury.) jaNE and a half cups of granulated sugar, half cup butter, stirred to a cream ; whites of six eggs, two cups flour, one teaspoon and a half baking powder, half cup sweet milk. Bake in layers. FILLING. One cup of sugar, three tablespoons water, boiled candy high, poured over a cup of finely-chopped raisins (or hickory nuts), mixed with the well-beaten whites of two eggs

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