Silver or Gold Cake

Name: Silver or Gold Cake
Yield: 3 servings
Ingredients: a generous half-cup of butter; one and one-half cups of sugar; two full cups of sifted flour; one-half cup of sweet milk; one teaspoonful of cream of tartar; one-half teaspoonful of soda; the whites of eight eggs

From The national course in home economics, 1917

Serves 3

Use the same ingredients for both cakes.

Presented as published in 1917. 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 The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 161. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SILVER OR GOLD CAKE. A generous half-cup of butter, one and one-half cups of sugar, two full cups of sifted flour, one-half cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda and the whites of eight eggs

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