Mountain Cake

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• J teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda
• 3 breakfast-cupfuls of flour
• 1 breakfast-cupful of butter
• whites of eight eggs
• 1 teacupful of milk
• flavour with lemon

Method

1. 1

   Mix a teaspoonful of cream of tartar and a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda with three breakfast-cupfuls of flour, then rub in one breakfast-cupful of butter.

2. 2

   When quite smooth, beat in the whites of eight eggs and a teacupful of milk.

3. 3

   Mix thoroughly and flavour with lemon.

4. 4

   Turn the mixture into shallow baking-tins well buttered, and bake.

5. 5

   When cold, ice each Cake over, and cover them with jelly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mountain Cake. — Mix 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar and J teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda with 3 breakfast-cupfuls of flour, then rub in 1 breakfast-cupful of butter ; when quite For details respecting Culinary Processes, Utensils, Sauces, <tc., referred to, see under their special heads. 246 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL COOKERY. Cakes — continued. smooth, beat in the whites of eight eggs and 1 teacupful of milk. Mix thoroughly and flavour with lemon

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