White Cake

Ingredients

• 1 heaping cup sugar
• 2 eups of flour, after sifting
• scant Y% cup melted butter
• 2 large teaspoons baking powder.
• Whites of 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon of flavoring.
• 1 cup of milk

Method

1. 1

   Stir butter and sugar together, alternate sifted flour and 1 cup of milk and when thoroughly mixed add the beaten whites of eggs, if too thick, add a little more milk.

2. 2

   Bake in a moderate oven 30 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from One hundred choice recipes and business directory of Kannapolis, N.C. (1928) by Woman's Club of Kannapolis (N.C.), page 1. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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