Striped Cake (White and Yellow)

Ingredients

• 1 quart flour
• 1 cup sugar
• ^ cup butter
• 2-3 cup sweet milk
• whites of 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• yolks of 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon extract lemon
• 2 cups of the flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Prepare white and yellow layers separately, bake, and layer with icing made from sugar and water.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Henderson cook book (1914) by First Baptist Church (Henderson, N.C.). Ladies' Aid Society, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STRIPED CAKE ( WHITE AND YELLOW) . Sift 1 quart flour with the required ibaking powder that you use. White Layers. — Cream 1 cup sugar with ^ cup butter, 2-3 cup sweet milk, 2 cups of the sifted flour. Mix the above ingredients well and fold in the well-whipped whites of 4 eggs, a liberal pinch of salt and 1 teaspoon vanilla. This will make 2 nice layers or 3 thin layers. Yellow Lay- ers.— 1 cup sugar beaten with yolks of 4 eggs, % cup butter creamed, 2-3 cup sweet milk, 2 cups of the flour, a pinch salt, 1 teaspoon extract lemon. Bake in layers, 2 or 3 as preferred ; put together yellow and white layers with the fol- lowing icing. Icing. — 2 cups sugar, 1 cup boiling water. Cook till it strings when spoon is lifted. Set off stove a few 132 LATER OAKES minutes, whip 2 whites of eggs light,, put 1 level teaspoon baking powder

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