White Cake

Ingredients

• Whites of eight eggs
• small cupful of butter
• two cupfuls of pulverized sugar
• three-fourths cup of sweet milk
• small teaspoonful of soda
• two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar
• three and one-half cupfuls of flour

Method

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   Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the milk and soda, then one-half the eggs, two cups of flour, then the rest of the eggs with the cupful of flour, in which the cream-tartar has been well mixed.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHITE CAKE. Whites of eight eggs, beaten stiff, small cupful of butter, two cupfuls of pulverized sugar, three-fourths cup of sweet milk, small teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar, or three teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder, three and one-half cupfuls of flour

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