White Cake

Ingredients

• three cups flour
• two cups sugar
• one cup butter
• one cup boiling water
• one teaspoon baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add sugar, then the flour.

2. 2

   Dissolve baking powder in the boiling water, holding it over the cake bowl, so it will not be lost as it effervesces.

3. 3

   Stir it in the batter, and add the well beaten whites last.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 87. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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