Old Fashioned Gold Cake

Ingredients

• 12 eggs (yolks)
• 4 teacupfuls sugar
• 6 teacupfuls sifted flour
• 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
• 1 teacupful milk
• 11/2 teacupfuls butter

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar together until very light; add the milk, the eggs — very thoroughly beaten — and, lastly, the flour twice sifted with the yeast powder.

2. 2

   One-half the quantity given in these recipes would probably be ample for modern requirements.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Annie Dennis cook book (1905) by Annie E. Dennis, page 124. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Old Fashioned Gold Cake 12 eggs (yolks) 4 teaeupfuls sugar 6 teaeupfuls sifted flour 3 teaspoonfuls baking 1 teacupful milk powder 11/^ teaeupfuls butter To use with Old Fashioned Lady Cake both for the sake of using the yolks of part of the eggs whose whites were put in the lady's cake, and for the sake of the contrast of color. Cream the butter and sugar together until very light; add the milk, the eggs — very thoroughly beaten — and, lastly, the flour twice sifted with the yeast powder. One-half the quantity given in these recipes would probably be ample for modern requirements. Our grandmothers were generous providers. 240 THE NEW ANNIE DENNIS COOK BOOK Gold Cake, No. 1 % teacuipful butter (fiull) Vz teaspoonful salt 1 teacupful powdered sugar l^^ tea.^poonfuls baking 4 eggs (yolks) powder % teacupful sweet milk 1 teaspoonful lemon ex- 2 teacupfuls sifted flour

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