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White Cake

Name: White Cake
Yield: 3 servings
Ingredients: 1)4, cups sugar; 1 cup milk; }/2 cup butter; whites 4 eggs; 3 cups flour, sifted before measuring; }/2 teaspoons baking powder

From Delta Gamma cook book, 1922

Serves 3

Margaret Banta (Theta).

Presented as published in 1922. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Delta Gamma cook book (1922), page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

white cake and add a full cup of chopped raisins, mixed with a little flour, and bake in laj^ers. For CAKES 153 dark part use the eight yellows left from whites, adding one whole egg; beat until light and add two cups sugar thoroughly creamed with one full cup of butter, four cups of sifted flour having added two teaspoons baking powder, and three-fourths cup water. To this batter add one-fourth pound citron, one cup chopped pecans, one teaspoon each powdered cloves, cinnamon and allspice, lemon and vanilla extract. Bake in layers and put together with white layers with boiled icing. Eva Webb Dodd (One of Founders of Delta Gamma). Sponge Cake 3 eggs 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup sugar 3^ teaspoon soda 13^ cups flour y^ cup cold water Beat sugar and yolks of eggs until hght. Add water and flour, cream of tartar sifted in flour, soda in water. Beat until very hght. Lastly add whites beaten stiff. Bake twenty minutes. Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu). Sponge Cake 4 eggs, separate and beat the yolks with 1 cup sugar until very light add 3 tablespoons cold water Take measuring cup and put in 34 teaspoon salt, V/i teaspoons baking powder and 13^2 tablespoons cornstarch. Fill up cup with flour well sifted. Stir all together, add the beaten whites and one teaspoon vanilla. Absolutely rehable for roll jelly cake or with any frosting desired. Bake very slowly. Nina Winans (Sigma). Hot Water Sponge Cake 2 eggs 1 cup flour 1 cup sugar 3^ cup boiling water 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder flavoring, preferably almond Bake about one-half hour, in a medium oven. Juhette Gates (Sigma). 156 DELTA GAMMA COOK BOOK White Cake 1)4, cups sugar 1 cup milk }/2 cup butter whites 4 eggs 3 cups flour, sifted before measuring \]/2 teaspoons baking powder

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