Tudor Cake

Ingredients

• rub the butter to a cream
• stir in the sugar
• the yolks of eggs
• the milk
• part of the flour
• measure the cream tartar
• the soda, carefully dissolved in warm water

Method

1. 1

   First, rub the butter to a cream, then stir in the sugar and the yolks of eggs.

2. 2

   Beat the whites of the eggs separately.

3. 3

   Measure the cream of tartar and sift it with the flour.

4. 4

   Dissolve the soda in warm water and add it to the sour milk.

5. 5

   Mix all ingredients and bake in a lined cake pan.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Six little cooks (1910) by Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Tudor cake? The materials are not ex- pensive, and if you spoil them there will not be much lost." " Now, Aunt Jane, that's too bad! "We're not going to spoil anything! Just examine us and see if we don't know how to put cake together I * " Well, take that recipe, and tell me how you would go to work." " First, we'll rub the butter to a cream, then stir in the sugar, then the yolks of eggs ; (while one has been mixing AUNT JANE'S COOKING GLASS. 59 it, the others have been beating the eggs, you know, — ) then the milk and part of the flour; then — " "No," said her aunt; "you've left out something." "Oh, yes; first you measure the cream tartar and sift it with the flour; then you put the whites of the eggs, then the soda, carefully dissolved in warm water

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