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Moonlight Cake

From The new practical housekeeping, 1890

Serves 4

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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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 54. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Moonlight Cake. — Cream half pint soft butter with two-thirds pint sugar ; add gill milk and gently stir in well-beaten whites of nine eggs ; mix thoroughly heaping pint flour, one-third pint corn starch and two teaspoons baking powder and sift twice ; add to above, and when well mixed add two teaspoons vanilla sugar and half teaspoon extract of almond

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.