Three In One Cake

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tablesp cold water
• 1.5 cups flour
• 2 teasp baking powder
• 1 scant pt milk
• 2 tablesp cornstarch
• 1 beaten egg
• 0.5 cup sugar
• piece of butter size of an egg

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs and sugar, add cold water and flour sifted with baking powder.

2. 2

   Bake in two layers for French cream cake.

3. 3

   For filling, heat milk, dissolve cornstarch in cold milk, add beaten egg and sugar, stir until thick, then add butter.

4. 4

   For jelly cake, bake in a long pan, spread with jelly, and roll up.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Three In One Cake This recipe will answer for a French cream cake, a whipped cream cake, or a roil jelly cake. Beat 3 eggs and 1 cup sugar thoroughly, then add 2 tablesp cold water and l^^ cups flour sifted with 2 teasp baking powder. Always stir this batter in one direction. For a French cream cake bake in two round layers. Split the cakes, while warm, and put together with the following cream filling: Put I scant pt milk in a double boiler to heat. Dissolve 2 tablesp cornstarch in a little cold milk, add 1 beaten egg, and i/^ cup sugar. Then pour this mixture into the hot milk and stir constantly until thick. Add piece of butter size of an egg

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