White Cake
From The Elm City cook book, 1896
Presented as published in 1896. 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 The Elm City cook book (1896) by N.C.) Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church (New Bern, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
WHITE CAKE. Three cups pulverized sugar, one cup butter, whites of twelve eggs, one cup corn starch, one cup milk, three of flour, teaspoon- ful cream tartar, half teaspoonful soda. Cream the butter and sugar thoroughly dissolve the corn starch in one-half the milk and cream it with the butter and sugar. Now add the other milk into which the soda has been dissolved, then the flour in which the cream tartar has been sifted, lastly add the well beaten whites of the eggs, flavor with almond or rose. Don’t forget Davis’ Pharmacy when in need of Medicine. WHITE CAKE No. 2. Two cups sugar, three cups flour, one-half cup butter, two tea- spoonfuls Royal powder, one-half cup milk, whites of seven eggs, one teaspoonful vanilla, cream, butter and sugar, add part of milk and one cup flour, then the rest of milk, and one cup flour, then use the last cup of flour, and add the whites of eggs beaten very stiff, put in the vanilla then the baking powder without any flour. Bake in a slow oven for forty minutes. GOLD CAKE. Rub a generous cup of butter to a cream, add two cups sugar, beaten yolks of eight eggs, one cup milk, four cups sifted flour in which sift one spoonful and half of Royal powder. 19 Office of F. A. GULLEDGE. VERBENA, ALA., August 31st, 1896. Mr. A. B. GIRARDEAU, SAVANNAH, Ga. Dear Sir:—In reply to yours of the 29th, inst., I will say that I freely endorse all you or others have said or could ever say about Johnson’s Chill and Fever Tonic. ‘Two months ago my father who is 85 years old, was stricken down with Bilious Fever, and came near dying. I began at once with the Tonic, giving him a dose every two hours. I called in our family Doc- tor and told him what I was doing. He said it was the right treatment and advised that I continue it. He called again the next day and saw the effect of the Tonic and gave nothing him- self. Within a week my father was able to walk about the house. I persuaded him to take a second bottle and under its use he has grown strong. Although 85 years old on the 24th of last June, he has to-day taken a horse back ride of six miles unattended. This is only one of many remarkable cures performed by the Tonic that has come under my personal observation in the last 22 years that I have been selling the Tonic. If this remarkable medicine cost $5.00 a bottle and could only be obtained in London, there would be widespread interest manifested in it and vigorous efforts made to obtain it. But the fact that it sells for 50 cents a bottle and this returned if you are not pleased with the medicine, lead many people to overlook it altogether. I use it in every case in my own family and in my own immediate influence. Don’t think that I have ever been called on to refund the purchase price of a single bottle. Had one customer who came sixteen miles for a bottle last week. Yours very truly, F. A, GULLEDGE, 20 SODA WATER, COLD AND PURE, 5c. AT BRADHAMN’S. CITRON OAKE. One peund sugar, three-fourths pound flour, one pound citron, half pound butter, whites of fourteen eggs. Beat the sugar and Sutter to a cream, add the whites of eggs beaten toa stiff froth, flour gradually, and add citron finely shredded, well floured, last, flavor with lemon and mace. SPONGE CAKE. Twelve eggs, eighteen ounces fine granulated sugar, ten ounces flour, grated rind and juice of two lemons. Beat the yolks a few minutes, add the sugar and beat briskly for fifteen minutes. hen add the lemon and w hites, beat to a very stiff froth, and lastly the flour which has been sifted twice. Stir in the flour carefully, and bake in rather a brisk oven. If the proportions here given are skillfully compounded they will result in a very superior sponge cake. Davis’ Pharmacy Charges Reasonable Prices for Filling Prescriptions. NEVER-FAIL SPONGE CAKE. A good sponge cake should be as yellow as gold of velvety soft- Less, ‘and as tender as a marsh mallow. Ié the rule here given is strictly followed such a cake will be the sure result. Separate the whites and yolks of four eggs, beat. whites until stiff enough to remain in the inverted platter. Beat into them half cup granulated sugar, beat the yolks, add to them half cup sugar, beating it five minutes by the clock, add to the yolks juice and grated rind of a lemon. Now beat well together the yolks and the whites, at this stage beating is in order, but must be ab- solutely avoided after adding flour of which take one cup. The mixture should now look like a puff ball, and the flour is to be tossed or stirred into it with a light toss of a wooden spoon, stir- ring is quite different from beating. The cup of sugar should be generous, the cup of flour scant. Bake for twenty-five min- utes in a moderate oven. Just before putting in the oven sprinkle on the top through a sifter about a tablespoonful gran- ulated sugar. This gives the “crackly” on top crust so desirable. BOILED SPONGE CAKE. Four eggs, two cups sugar, two and a half cups flour, one tea- spoonful baking powder, ‘half pint boiling water poured on the eggs and sugar, ~ then mix in the flour. Bake thirty minutes. 21 SLUVER HARDWARE Uf. (JENERAL HarRpDWARE! Sash, Doors and Blinds. Paints, * Oils ® and*®* Glass. And Everything in the Hardware Line. All Prices Guaranteed. Ll. oH .CUTEER; President, J. C. WATKINS, Sec. and Treas. No. 73 Middle Street, next to Citizens’ Bank, lt! New Berne, N. C. 22 MALT FOR POORLY PEOPLE, I5c. 25c. AT BRADHAM’S. ANGEL CAKE. Whites of eleven eggs, one and half tumblers fine granulated sugar, one tumbler flour, one teaspoonful cream tartar
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