Snow Cake

Ingredients

• a quarter of a pound of butter
• a quarter of a pound of powdered sugar
• half a pound of arrowroot
• a pinch of salt
• the whites of three eggs
• Butter a shallow mould

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream, gradually add powdered sugar, arrowroot, salt, and a flavouring of lemon, almond, or vanilla.

2. 2

   Whisk the egg whites to snow, stir into the mixture, and beat until light and white.

3. 3

   Pour into a buttered mould and bake in a gentle oven for an hour and a quarter without allowing it to acquire colour.

4. 4

   Cool slightly, then cut into pieces about two inches square.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 202. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SNOW CAKE. — Beat a quarter of a pound of butter to a cream, then gradually add a quarter of a pound of powdered sugar, half a pound of arrowroot, a pinch of salt, and a flavouring of either lemon, almond, or vanilla. Whisk the whites of three eggs to snow, stir them into the mixture, and beat it again until it is light and white. Butter a shallow mould

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