White Cake

Ingredients

• Whites of 12 eggs
• 3 large coffee cups of granulated sugar
• 1 cup of butter
• 4 heaping cups of flour
• 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup of water

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add sugar, with flour and eggs alternately, vanilla, then add baking powder sifted in with a cup of the flour.

2. 2

   Bake in 4 layers of jelly tins and ice, or bake in mold or muffin rings and cover with white icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 153. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 heaping teaspoons baking powder, whites of 8 eggs, 1 dessertspoon of vanilla. Cream butter and sugar. Have whites beaten to a froth, add half of them to butter and sugar, with half of flour, milk, % baking powder and vanilla ; continue beating hard and add rest of flour and eggs ; stir well. Bake in 2 square jelly cake tins. Ice when cold. Marshmallow Cake. One cup of butter, 2% cups granulated sugar, 4^4 cups flour, 1 cup of water, whites of 8 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 tea* spoon vanilla. Mix as in preceding recipe. Sunshine Cake. One and one-fourth cups granulated sugar, 1 cup flour, 1-3 tea- spoon cream of tartar, whites of 7 eggs, yolks of 5 eggs. Sift flour and sugar, whip whites stiff, add cream of tartar and sugar to the whites and beat hard; then yolks and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Stir in flour lightly. Put in greased mold and bake in a slow oven. Nut Cake. r One and one-fourth cups granulated sugar, 2-3 cup butter, 2-3 cup milk, 3 cups flour, yolks of 8 eggs, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, y^ teaspoon soda, 1 cup nuts. Sift flour once, add soda and sift 3 times. Cream butter and sugar, then add eggs beaten light ana cream of tartar. Beat well, add milk, then flour, and stir very hard. Lemon Cake. Three coffee cups granulated sugar, 4 cups sifted flour, 1 cup butter, 1 cup milk, 5 eggs, 1 even teaspoon soda dissolved in milk, juice and grated peel of 1 lemon added last. Bake in tins. When cold cut into squares and ice with lemon icing. Fruit Cake. One cup granulated sugar, % cup of butter, 1% cups flour, 1 cup seeded raisins, % cup sherry wine, 2 eggs, % teaspoon of soda. Mix and bake in 3 layers in jelly tins. Cover with white icing. White Cake. « Whites of 12 eggs, 3 large coffee cups of granulated sugar, 1 cup of butter, 4 heaping cups of flour, 2 heaping teaspoons baking 254 KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. powder, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 cup of water

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