Nellie's Cake

Ingredients

• Whites of 8 eggs
• 2 cups of sugar
• 1 cup of butter
• 3 cups of flour
• 2 even teaspoonfuls of Cameo baking powder
• 1 cup of milk

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and add alternately the milk and flour.

2. 2

   Beat the whites of eggs and sugar together until smooth, then add flavoring and the last cup of flour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delicate dishes (1896), page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4 cup of butter with i cup of powdered sugar, and ^ cup of milk, 2 cups of flour and 2 table- spoonfuls of corn starch, into which has been sifted 2 heaping teaspoonfuls of Cameo baking powder. Add the whites of 4 eggs, beaten. Selected. FILLING. Beat the whites of 2 eggs to a stiff froth, add i cup of powdered sugar and spread between the layers. Drain the juice from a can of pineapples and chop fine, sprinkling it over the frosting. Shell % pound of pecan nuts and put them over the frosting. Whip cream with powdered sugar and spread over top and sides Miss Gertrude A. Hubbard. 1/ALEUTINrr YflLENTINE & GOMPflNY. YMRni ISHLO Coach and Car Varnisbes and Colors. 126 CAKE. FRELINGHUYSEN CAKE. Cream i cup of butter with i^ of sugar, add i cup of molasses, i of milk, 4^ of flour, 3 eggs, i teaspoon- ful each of soda, cloves and cinnamon, i nutmeg, 2 cups of seeded raisins, and i large cup of nut meats, if desired. Mrs. A. F. Sargent. SPONGE CAKE. Beat 2 cups of sugar with the yolks of 6 eggs until foamy, add gradually 4 tablespoonfuls of cold water. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, add a pinch of salt. Mix all well together with 2 scant cups of sifted flour. Flavor with lemon. Mrs. S. W. Sea. SPICE CAKE. Mix I yz cups of brown sugar with i of butter, i of milk, 3 eggs, 2 heaping teaspoonfuls of Cameo baking powder, sifted with 1^2. cups of flour, i teaspoonful of cinnamon, a little nutmeg, a pinch of allspice, i cup of raisins; vanilla flavoring. Bake in an angel food pan in a slow oven. Mrs. Edward Carry. MRS. GOODRICH'S BERRY CAKE. Two cups of sugar, scant ^ cup of butter, i of milk, 4 of flour, 2 or 3 eggs, 3 teaspoonfuls of Cameo bak- ing powder, i box of blueberries or raspberries. Flour the berries and stir in lightly the last thing. Is good hot for tea or cold for lunch. Mrs. H. L. Humphrey. CAKE. 127 NELLIE'S CAKE. Whites of 8 eggs, 2 cups of sugar, i of butter, 3 of flour, 2 even teaspoonfuls of Cameo baking powder

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