Queen's Cake

Ingredients

• one cupful of butter
• three cupfuls of white sugar
• the yolks of six eggs
• one cupful of milk
• two teaspoonfuls of vanilla or lemon extract
• four cupfuls of flour
• two heaping teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar
• one even teaspoonful of soda
• one tablespoonful of warm water

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter and sugar together, add yolks, milk, and extract.

2. 2

   Mix flour with cream of tartar and sift over the mixture while stirring.

3. 3

   Dissolve soda in warm water and add.

4. 4

   Gently stir in beaten egg whites.

5. 5

   Bake slowly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 192. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cupful of butter and three cupfuls of white sugar, add the yolks of six eggs and one cupful of milk, two teaspoonfuls of vanilla or lemon extract. Mix all thoroughly. To four cupfuls of flour add two heaping teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar and sift gently over the cake stirring all the time. To this add one even teaspoonful of soda dis- solved in one tablespoonful of warm water

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