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Snow-mountain Cake
From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884
Serves 5
Use grated cocoa-nut for decoration.
Presented as published in 1884. 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 Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 89. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Snow-mountain Cake. Cream until very light half a pint of butter; add slow- ly, stirring all the time, a pint of pulverized white sugar, and when the mixture is light add half a pint of new milk, in which a teaspoonf ul of soda has been dissolved; when well mixed, the yolks of five eggs ; rub thoroughly into a heaping quart of flour sifted two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, and stir in the butter, alternating with the beaten whites of three of the eggs
Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.