White Cake

Ingredients

• One and three-quarters of a cup of sugar
• 1 cup of butter
• 1 cup of cold water
• IV^ t'U)p of Dousman's J'est Patent flour
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• whites of 8 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Bake in a Jewel Range.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Superior cook book (1905) by Grace Church (Ishpeming, Mich.), page 93. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White Cake. (^ne-half eup of huttcr (eream this hrst). IVl' eups of granulated sugar sifted 5 times, 1 teas])oonful of vanilla. 'I teaspoonfuls haking powder (heaping), -Vii eups of pastry Houi- sifted -") times, 1 eup of cold water, little salt, whites of 5 eggs, ("ream the butter and sugar, adtl the water, then stir in ahout 2 cups of flour, then vanilla and then the wdiites of the eggs beaten stiff*. Before add- ing the last half eu]) of flour and baking powder, beat the cake for 5 minutes. Bake in a Jewel Range, either in \\ layers or loaf cake. Measure flour and sugar after sifting. Miss Ursula Ropes. Mrs. H. F. Handford. ]\Iarquette. ^ri;s. TiiEO. D. Hall. Xegaunee. White Cake. Two cups sugar, ti cups J)ousman"s Best Patent flour. 1 cup butter. 1 cup sweet milk, 1 cup cornstarch, whites of S eggs, W teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon almond extract. Mix butter and sugar to a cream, then add the milk. Mix flour, cornstarch and baking poAvder and add by degrees the wdiites of tlie eggs, beaten very stiff', and lastly the flavoring. Bake in a Jewel Range. Mrs. T. A. Felch. White Cake. One and three-quarters of a cu]» of sugar, 1 cup of butter. 1 cup of cold water, \anilla, wdiites of 8 eggs, 'IV^ t'U])s of Dousman's J'est Patent flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in a Jewel ]»ange. Mrs. Harris. White Cake. • Two cups sugar. % cup butter, 1 cup millc. ;] cups Dousman's Best Patent flour, SUPERIOR COOK lK)OK 127 '2 licapiiii;' loii.'^pdoiis hakini;' pDwdcr, xaiiilla. whites of S c.ii'.^is Uoatcn (o a I'rdth (stiJP. Civaiii butter and supu- xcrv liui't, add milk. Ilicn licat in the Hour and whites of eaa's. alternately, until all of eaiis and Hour are u.-^ed. IJeatin^ llns cake well makes it mueli liner. .Makes I layers or 'i hars. Mljs. Axwr^Ll,. Gold Cake to go with it. One eup butter. "2 eu[)s siiuar. 1 cuii milk. ;! leaspoons baking;- powder, o cups Uousman's Best Patent, flour, yolks of S cnj^s and "i whole e,i:',ii's. Whites beaten and ])nt in last. T.omon extract, liake in a .lewel IJanuf. Mi;s. A'i"\vi:r.i.. White Layer Cake. One eup uranulatt'd su<;'ar. ',•_. cup bullei' (cream buller and su,uai'). ' ^. eup uulk. \U cuj) cornstarch. l\/-> cups Dousman's Best Patent Hour, 'i teaspoons baking;; powder, whites of '.] ei:'^'s beaten stilT. pinch of salt. I-Jake in a -lewel Han.iie. Mi;s. .1. S. Olson. White Layer Cake. One and one-half cups of sui^ar. [■_, vu\) of butlt'r. -j.^ cup of nnlk. whites of 4 eggs, 2 cups of sifted Dousman's Pest Patent flour (sift 4 times). 1 teas])oonrul of soda in floui' also. 1'^. teaspoonfuls ci"e,im of tartar. Make in a .lewel lianuv. Mi;s. T. ,). Fly NX. Rich White Layer Cake. Cream \'U cup of butter and beat o minutes, add IVl' eu[)s of powdi'ivd sugar and beat o minutes longer. Sift "^ cu]is of Dousman's P)est Patent flour and y^ cup of cornstarch with 4 \r\v\ teaspoons of l)aking powder. .\dd th.e Ihuir and corji- starcli to the first mi.xture altcriuUely with i, :_> cup n\' cold watt'r. .\(\i\ last the stilflv beaten whites of 4 eggs and a teaspoon of lemon flavoring. Pake in a .lew(4 Pange in ."5 layers and put any kind of white icing or lllling between. White Cake with Soft Filling. One cup of butter. "? cups of sugai'. whitts of (i eggs, 1 cup (d' sweet milk, o'- cups of cake flour and 3 heaping teaspoonfuls of leaking powder, thnoring to suit. This makes 4 thick layers. l>ake in a Jewel Pange. PiLi.iNo. — One egg, a cup of sugar. '.] grated apples and 1 lemon. Stir until it boils and beconu's thick, let it cool befon' |)Utting betwet'n layers. Ice lop (d' cake with white icing. ]\[i{s. Li-: Hoy Christlvn. World's Fair White Cake. Two cups sugar, i/^ ^'^'P buttt-r, 1 cup sweet uulk or water. ;^ cups Dousman's Best Patent flour, 3 teaspoons baking pow'der, whites of 8 eggs

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