Snow Cake

Ingredients

• Whites of eight eggs
• two cups of white sugar
• one cup of butter well washed
• one cup of sweet milk
• one teaspoonful of soda
• two of cream of tartar sifted into two cups of flour and one of corn starch

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream and then beat in the flour; beat the white of the eggs to a stiff froth and beat the sugar into that.

2. 2

   Stir in the milk and then add the two mixtures together.

3. 3

   This can be baked in a loaf; but it is better baked in layers between which is spread boiled frosting with almonds pounded to a paste, mixed into it; or with a spread of whipped cream between the layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete cook book (1900) by Rees, Jennie Day Mrs., page 103. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one teaspoonful of soda in the flour. Sift flour five times. Cream the butter, add sugar, then flour and milk alternately (pouring the milk through a sieve), liast put in the whites of egg beaten stiff ; flavor to taste. This batter makes six layers. Filling : Boil not quite one pint of morning's milk ; beat three eggs with one teacup of sugar and one table- spoonful of flour sifted in it, and add the milk before taking off Put in a piece of butter the size of a walnut, allow it to thicken, flavor with vanilla and set aside to cool. Divide in half and put in one part chopped citron. Blanch one-quarter pound of almonds, chop fine and add to the other portion. Crystallized cherries with the almonds and English walnuts .with the citron is an improvement. This is delicious. The Complete Cook Book. 2 19 SISTER BETTIE'S SUGAR CAKE. One tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of lard, one cup q<: sugar, one-half cup of buttermilk, one teaapoonful of soda mixed in milk, one egg, flour to roll and flavor to taste. BRIDE'S CAKE— A SPLENDID RECIPE. Take three-quarters of a pound of butter, wash and cream it, add one pound of white sugar; beat them well together, then add the beaten whites of seventeen eggs, alternately with a pound of sifted flour. Flavor with lemon or rose, and bake. This is a most delicious and delicate cake. WHITE SPONGE CAKE. . Seven eggs, two cups of granulated sugar, two cups of sifted flour, two-thirds of a cup of cold water; flavor to taste; one tablespoonful of baking powder. Beat the yolks of the eggs and the sugar to a cream, then add the water, then the flour; beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and beat in lightly the very last thing. Bake in a moderate oven. SNOW CAKE. Whites of eight eggs, two cups of white sugar, one cup of butter well washed, one cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonf ul of soda and two of cream of tartar sifted into two cups of flour and one of corn starch

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