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Mock Pound Cake

From Cooks in clover, 1889

Miss H. E. Latham.

Presented as published in 1889. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooks in clover (1889), page 41. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mock Pound Cake. — One cup of corn starch, wet with half a cup of milk; one cup of butter; two cups of sugar; three cups of flour; four eggs, the whites and yelks beaten separately ; two even tea- spoons of baking powder. Flavor to taste

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