Silver Cake

Name: Silver Cake
Ingredients: one and a half cups of powdered sugar; half a cup of butter; the whites of three eggs; one teaspoon of vanilla or rose; one cup of cold water; three cups of flour; two teaspoons of baking powder

From Cooks in clover, 1889

Frost with egg whites and powdered sugar.

Presented as published in 1889. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

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

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

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