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Silver Cake

From Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide, 1880

Serves 2

A chocolate frosting is nice with this cake.

Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 157. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Silver Cake. One cupful of sugar, half a cupful of butter, the whites of three eggs, half a cupful of corn-starch, dissolved in nearly half a cupful of milk ; one and a fourth cupfuls of flour, half a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of soda, and vanilla or almond flavor

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