White Bride Cake

Ingredients

• one pound of butter
• one and one-quarter pounds of pulverized sugar
• one pound of sifted flour
• the whites of fourteen eggs
• another pound of flour

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter until creamy, add pulverized sugar and beat until fine and white.

2. 2

   Add sifted flour, stir, then add the whites of fourteen eggs, continue beating, and add another pound of flour.

3. 3

   Mix well, paper your dish, pour in the batter, and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ideal cook book (1899) by Anne Clarke, page 95. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White Bride Cake. Take one pound of butter, put it into a basin and beat it with your hand till it comes to a fine cream, then add one and one-quarter pounds of pulverized sugar, and beat together until it is fine and white; then add one pound of sifted flour, give it a stir and then add the whites of fourteen eggs ; continue to beat it and add another pound of flour

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.