Orange Cake

Ingredients

• Two ounces of butter
• six ounces of sugar
• two tea-cupfuls of flour
• one half tea-cupful of sweet milk
• one tea-spoonful of cream of tartar
• one half tea-spoonful of soda
• three eggs
• one orange

Method

1. 1

   In a mixing-bowl, combine flour, butter, and three ounces of sugar.

2. 2

   Rub together and add yolks of eggs.

3. 3

   Mix cream of tartar and soda into milk, pour over yolks, and stir well.

4. 4

   Whip whites of two eggs to stiff froth and fold into the mixture.

5. 5

   Grease three jelly cake tins, spread batter evenly, and bake in a quick oven for seven minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 137. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Orange Cake. — Two ounces of butter, six ounces of sugar, two tea-cupfuls of flour, one half tea-cupful of sweet milk, one tea-spoonful of cream of tartar, one half tea- spoonful of soda, three eggs, one orange

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