Premium White Cake

Ingredients

• 4 eggs (whites)
• 2 teacupfuls sugar
• 1 teacupful butter
• 1 teacupful sweet milk
• 4 light teacupfuls sifted flour
• 1 heaping teaspoonful baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Sift the baking powder in the flour, cream the butter and sugar together until very light; beat into this one cupful of the flour, then add the sweet milk, now beat in the rest of the flour; when perfectly smooth stir in the well beaten whites; last, the vanilla.

2. 2

   Bake one hour and a half in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Annie Dennis cook book (1905) by Annie E. Dennis, page 125. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Premium White Cake ^ eggs (whites) 4 light teacupfuls sifted 2 teacupfuls sugar flour 1 teacupful butter 1 heaping teaspoonful 1 teacupful sweet milk baking powder Sift the baking powder in the flour, cream the but- ter and sugar together until very light; beat into this one cupful of the flour, then add the sweet milk, now beat in the rest of the flour; when perfectly smooth stir in the well beaten whites ; last, the vanilla. Bake one hour and a half in a moderate oven. Snow Cake 8 eggs (whites) 2 cupfuls flour 2 cupfuls sugar 2 Iheaping teaspoonfuls 1 cupful butter baking powder 1 cupful corn starch THE NEW ANNIE DENNIS COOK BOOK 241 White Cake, No. 1 4 eggs (whites)

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