WHITE CAKE

Ingredients

• one cupful of butter
• two cupfuls of sugar
• one-half cupful of sweet milk
• three level tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder
• the whites of eight eggs
• three and one-half cupfuls of flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter, add the sugar (beating well), then the milk, and lastly the flour and eggs alternately.

2. 2

   This is nice baked in one large cake or baked in two cakes with icing of chocolate and raisins put between them.

3. 3

   Cut into squares, and put in a cake-basket.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 141. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHITE CAKE. Take one cupful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar, one-half cupful of sweet, milk, three level tea-spoonfuls of baking- powder, the whites of eight eggs, three and one-half cupfuls of flour. Cream the butter, add the sugar (beating well), then the milk, and lastly the flour and eggs alternately. This is nice baked in one large cake or baked in two cakes and an icing of chocolate and raisins put between them. Cut into squares, aud put in a cake-basket. 'Mrs. Waller Allen. ROBERT E. LEE CAKE. Make a batter the same as for jelly cake. Squeeze the juice from three lemons and one orange, take all the seeds out of the juice and pour over one pound of white sugar; stir until dissolved; grate one cocoa-nut; bake in jelly-cake tins, and as each one is baked, spread on a layer of the orange juice, then sprinkle cocoa-nut over them, drop some of the juice over the cocoa-nut, then place another layer of cake, and so on until all the cakes are used. Spread icing or sprinkle powdered sugar on the top layer. This cake is delicious. Mrs. Keith. VARIEGATED CAKE. Take one cupful of powdered sugar, one-half cupful of butter, one-half cupful of sweet milk

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