Ruth's Boiled Cake

Ingredients

• ^2 cupful sugar
• % cupful flour
• 4 tablespoonfuls cold water
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder
• 3 eggs
• % teaspoonful salt
• % teaspoonful vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Boil the sugar and water together until the syrup forms a thread when dropped from a spoon.

2. 2

   Beat the egg whites until stiff and dry.

3. 3

   Pour the hot syrup over them, beating constantly until cold.

4. 4

   Then stir in the egg yolks, beaten until light and lemon colored.

5. 5

   Sift the dry ingredients and add them gradually.

6. 6

   Pour in oiled tins, or better still in tins lined with oiled paper, and bake in a moderate oven until firm.

7. 7

   This requires about 20 or 25 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Ruth's Boiled Cake ^2 cupful sugar % cupful flour 4 tablespoonfuls cold water 1 teaspoonful baking powder 3 eggs % teaspoonful salt % teaspoonful vanilla

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