Velvet Cake

Ingredients

• fib. of warmed butter
• lib. of caster sugar
• 1 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teacupful of cold water
• 2 teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar
• five eggs

Method

1. 1

   Beat warmed butter and caster sugar until creamy.

2. 2

   Dissolve bicarbonate of soda in cold water and mix with butter and sugar.

3. 3

   Sift cream of tartar into flour and gradually mix in with beaten eggs.

4. 4

   Bake in a greased tin for half an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Velvet Cake. — Beat fib. of warmed butter and lib. of caster sugar with the hand until it becomes like cream. Dissolve 1 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda in 1 teacupful of cold water, and mix in with the butter and sugar. Put 2 tea- spoonfuls of cream of tartar in lib. of flour, and sift gradually in with the other ingredients ; add five eggs

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