Snow Cake

Ingredients

• One pound of flour
• one pound sugar
• half a pound butter
• whites of sixteen eggs
• a teaspoonful of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

half pound butter, half teacup milk, two teaspoons baking powder, flour enough to roll. LEMON SNAPS. One coffee cup sugar, two-thirds cup butter, half tea- spoon soda dissolved in two teaspoons hot water, flour enough to roll thin ; flavor with lemon. SEED CAKE. Mix a pound and a half of flour and a pound brown sugar, eight eggs beaten separately, an ounce of seeds to ‘the taste, two spoonfuls of yeast, and the same of milk and water. : WEDDING CAKE, Fifty eggs, five pounds sugar, five pounds flour, five pounds butter, fifteen pounds raisins, three pounds citron, & - th 198 -“DORA’S COOK BOOK. ten pounds currants, one pint brandy, one-fourth ounce cloves, one ounce cinnamon, four ounces of mace, four ounces nutmeg. This makes forty-three pounds, and keeps twenty years. ALMOND CAKE. Two cups sugar, three-fourths cup butter, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour, and one cup of cornstarch well mixed, whites of six eggs, two teaspoons cream of tartar in the flour, one teaspoon soda in the milk ; cream the butter and sugar, add milk gradually, then the whites of eggs together with the flour, and bake in jelly-tins. To put between layers, take two pounds almonds, blanch and pound fine in a mortar (or fine cloth will do) beat whites and yolks of two eggs together lightly, add a cup and a-half sugar, then the almonds with a tablespoon vanilla. EXCELLENT RICE CAKE. One-half pound rice flour, six eggs, one-half pound white sugar. Beat all together for half an hour. BUTTERMILK CAKE, One cup butter, two cups buttermilk, three cups sugar, | four eggs, five cups flour, soda enough to swéeten the but- termilk. COFFEE CAKE. Three cups of flour, one cup butter, one cup molasses, one cup of coffee prepared as for table; one cup sugar, a — 3 vat € a ‘ psi: ¢ pee ee) cares LON A De f one pound of raisins, spice to taste, and Fede teaspoons a of baking powder. ; | CHARITY CAKE, Two eggs, four tablespoonsful sugar, piece of butter size of a walnut, three teaspoonsful baking powder, nutmeg, flour to roll out; cut in cakes. " + LIGHT GINGERBREAD. One quart of flour, two tablepoonsful butter, six eggs, and a teaspoonful soda, mixed in a pint of molasses. ‘EVERY DAY CAKE. . Four cups flour, two cups sugar, two cups sour milk, one teaspoonful butter, one teaspoonful soda, one nut- meg, one cup of raisins. SUGAR CAKE. One coffee cup butter, three cups sugar, one cup cold water, three teaspoons baking powder, a little ginger ; roll thin, and cut with tin. QUEEN VICTORIA CAKE, ‘ , One pound flour, one pound sugar, one pound butter, : eight eggs, beaten separately ; flavor with lemon. aR Me : SNOW CAKE, a renee One pound of flour, one pound sugar, half a pound but- ter, whites of sixteen eggs

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