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Sunshine Cake

From Paul Richards' book of breads, cakes, pastries, ices and sweetmeats, 1907

Serves 2

Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Paul Richards' book of breads, cakes, pastries, ices and sweetmeats (1907) by Paul Richards, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lemon or vanilla cornstarch, a half ounce of cream of tartar. flavor. No. 4. One quart of whites, two pounds of Mix same as No. 244. Bake in medium beat sugar, twelve ounces of flour, two ounces of corn- 300 to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. starch, a half ounce of cream of tartar. ago. — SPONGE CAKE. No. 5. One quart of whites, one pound of so- LADYFINGER MIXTURE. gar, fourteen ounces of flour, two ounces of cors- One pound of sugar, eighteen eggs, one poond starch, a half ounce of cream of tartar, one ounce of flour, vanilla flavor. Mix the flour, starch, sugar and cream of tar- Separata the eggs; stir the yolks and scgar tar well together-, sifting it three or four iieais. light. Keep one ounce ot the sugar out. Beat Beat the whites firm same as for meringve. Add the whites firm and beat in the sa^r, then stir in a handful of the mixed sugar and flour and beat the flavor and yolks and mis in the flour lightly it in with the flavor; then add the flour and sogai: but fuUy. mix and fill into the mold, and bake. Other mixtures with the same aaioant of flour Mixture No. 4 is a very light mixturs— tbe sSg\ and sugar are made with from ten to sixteen eggs original angel food. The whites should not be to the pound. The "tea eggs" mixture is used beaten up fully for this one mixture, only till tbe for cheaper bakery goods; but more eggs make a eggs stand up on the beater, better ladyfinger and raise them up high and The others are standard mixtures, generally smooth in baking. used. Bake in about 400 degrees Fabrenhait. 252. — SUNSHINE CAKE. 2ei._ANGEL CAKE. Make the mixture as for the Angel Cakes above, Angel Cake or Angel Food is a cousin of the °°^y *^^ *'°°' sixteen to twenty-four yolks
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