Piccolomini Cake

Ingredients

• one cup of butter
• three cups of sugar
• beat five eggs very light
• four cups of flour
• one cup of sweet milk
• one teaspoon of cream-tartar in a little warm water
• half a teaspoon of soda
• nutmeg
• a wine glass of rose water

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs gradually, then flour, milk, and other ingredients.

2. 2

   Bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooks in clover (1889), page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cup of sweet milk, two cups of flour, half a cup of com starch, two teaspoons of baking powder, and the whites of seven eggs. Flavor to taste. Mrs. Wni. R. Powell. Delicate Cake, II. — Two cups of white sugar, three quarters of a cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, three cups of flour, the whites of four eggs, two teaspoons of cream-tartar, and one of soda. Mrs. O. IV. Aekirvian. Belle Cake. — One cup of sugar, a third of a cup of butter, half a cup of milk, one and a half cups of flour, the whites of two eggs, two teaspoons of bak- ing powder, and a little salt. Ice, while hot, with the yelks of the eggs and half a cup of powdered sugar, also one teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Mrs. Robt. Bdl. Silver Cake. — Stir to a cream one and a half cups of powdered sugar, and half a cup of butter ; add the whites of three eggs beaten stiff, one tea- spoon of vanilla or rose, one cup of cold water, three cups of flour, and two teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in a tin pan, eight by twelve inches in size, in a moderately hot oven. Frosting: — The whites of two eggs, and one pound of powdered sugar. After you have frosted the cake, mark into squares, and place half of an Eng- lish walnut on each. To be cut as marked, when cold. Mrs. Peter Doremus, 8o COOKS IN CLOVER. Sunshine Cake.— The yelks of eleven eggs, two cups of sugar, one of butter, one of milk, one tea- spoon of cream-tartar, half a teaspoon of soda, and three cups of flour ; flavor to taste. Mrs. M. L. Blizard. \ Piccolomini Cake. — One cup of butter, and three \ cups of sugar rubbed to a cream ; beat five eggs very \ light, and stir them gradually into the butter and ! sugar; then add four cups of flour, one cup of sweet' milk, one teaspoon of cream-tartar in a little warm < w'ater, half a teaspoon of soda, nutmeg, and a wine glass of rose water

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