Sunshine Cake

Ingredients

• Beat the whites of eleven eggs
• the well beaten yolks of six eggs
• one and a half cups granulated sugar
• one cup of flour
• a level teaspoonful of cream tartar
• a teaspoonful of vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Mix and bake in an ungreased pan for forty to fifty minutes in a slow oven.

2. 2

   Cover with brown paper until cake is risen.

3. 3

   When done, turn pan upside down until cake is cold; run a knife around edge and stem, set in oven one minute and the cake will fall out.

4. 4

   Flavor icing with grated orange peel.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Landmarks club cook book (1903) by The Landmarks club, Los Angeles, Calif., page 104. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

alf teaspoon of vanilla, half teaspoon lemon, pinch of salt. Beat the whites and yolks separately and then beat them to- gether. Boil the sugar in quarter of a cup of water until clear, then pour it slowly into the beaten eggs— a very little at a time, so as not to cook the eggs. Beat until cool, then stir in the flour. Do not beat it after putting in the flour (stir it). Bake three- quarters hour in a slow oven. Mrs. J. H. F, Peck. CAKE. 175 sultana cake. One cup butter, rind of one lemon, one and a half cups su- gar, one cup chopped almonds, five eggs, four cups flour, half cup milk, one teaspoonful baking powder, four ounces mixed candied peel, one and a half cups sultana raisins. Cream but- ter, add sugar gradually and beat well. Grate in lemon rind, sift flour and baking powder and add them alternately with milk and eggs (eggs put in unbeaten). Beat all thoroughly for two or three minutes, then stir in raisins, candied peel shredded fine and almonds chopped. Bake in tin lined with buttered paper for one and a quarter hours. Kate E. Whitaker. SUNSHINE CAKE. Whites of seven small fresh eggs, yolks of five, one scant cup granulated sugar, two-thirds cup butter, one-third tea- spoon cream tartar, a pinch of salt. Sift twice the measure of flour and sugar. Beat the yolks thoroughly; beat the whites with a pinch of salt ; when half beaten add cream of tartar and beat stiff. Stir in the sugar lightly, then the beaten yolks, then a teaspoon of vanilla and lemon mixed, then the flour folded in. But in tube pan well greased. Bake in a moderate oven from forty to fifty minutes. Mrs. C. F. A. Last. SUNSHINE CAKE. Beat the whites of eleven eggs until very stiff, putting into them a pinch of cream tartar when half beaten. Add the well beaten yolks of six eggs and mix lightly. Sift into this one and a half cups granulated sugar. Measure one cup of flour after it has been sifted four times, put into it a level teaspoon- ful of cream tart

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