Velvet Cake

Ingredients

• one-half cup butter
• one and one-half cups sugar
• yolks four eggs
• one-half cup milk
• one and one-half cups flour
• one-half cup cornstarch
• four level teaspoons baking powder
• whites four eggs
• one-third cup almonds blanched shredded

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and gradually add sugar, then beaten egg yolks.

2. 2

   Mix in milk, sifted flour, cornstarch, and baking powder.

3. 3

   Fold in beaten egg whites.

4. 4

   Pour into a buttered pan, sprinkle with almonds and powdered sugar, and bake for forty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus (1911) by Rufus Estes, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

VELVET CAKE— One-half cup butter, one and one-half cups sugar, yolks four eggs, one-half cup milk, one and one- half cups flour, one-half cup cornstarch, four level teaspoons baking powder, whites four eggs, one-third cup almonds blanched shredded

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