White Bride Cake

Ingredients

• Put 1 lb. of butter
• 1 1/2 lbs. pulverized sugar
• 1 lb. sifted flour
• the whites of 14 eggs
• another pound of flour

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter with your hand till it comes to a fine cream; add pulverized sugar, and beat together until fine and white.

2. 2

   Then add sifted flour, stir, and add the whites of 14 eggs; continue to beat and add another pound of flour and 14 more whites; beat well; mix all together, paper your dish around the sides and bottom, put in your batter and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The white ribbon cook book (1894) by Kathryn Armstrong, page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White Bride Cake — Put i lb. of butter into a basin and beat it with your hand till it comes to a fine cream; add 1}^ lbs. pulverized sugar, and beat together until it is fine and white: then add 1 lb. sifted flour, give it a stir, and then add the whites of 14 eggs; continue to beat it and add another pound of flour

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