Velvet Cake

Ingredients

• One-half cup butter
• Yolks 4 eggs
• One and one-half cups flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• One-third cup almonds blanched
• One and one-half cups sugar
• One-half cup cold water
• One-half cup corn starch
• Whites of 4 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs well beaten and water.

2. 2

   Mix and sift flour, corn starch, and baking powder and add to first mixture, then add whites of eggs beaten until stiff.

3. 3

   After putting in pan, cover with almonds and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

4. 4

   Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Federation cook book (1910) by Bertha L. Turner, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Velvet Cake "A WILDERNESS OF SWEETS" One-half cup butter Yolks 4 eggs One and one-half cups flour 4 teaspoons baking powder One-third cup almonds blanched One and one-half cups sugar One-half cup cold water One-half cup corn starch Whites of 4 eggs

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