White Cake

Ingredients

• Whites of eight eggs
• one cup butter
• two and a half cups sugar
• four cups flour
• one cup sweet milk
• two teaspoons Royal baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Bake in pans for layer cake and use any kind of filling you wish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Popular cook book (1899) by Seeman Printery, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHITE CAKE (For Cocoanut). Cream three-fourths cup butter; to it add one and onc- half cups sugar, one-half cup sweet milk, two and one- half cups flour, whites of six eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Flavor to taste. Cocoanut filling. ~ Mrs. KUGENE MOREHEAD. SPONGE CAKE. Six eggs to one-half pound sugar, six ounces flour, juice and rind one lemon; sift the flour; beat whites of eggs to a very stiff froth, then beat the yolks and add them to the whites; add sugar and flour. Put into a [ 85 ] greased pan and bake from twenty to thirty minutes in a quick oven. MRs. J:-H.,McDOWELL. PSLN Grr ORS CAH: Whites of three eggs, one and a half pints pulverized sugar, juice of one lemon or two teaspoonfuls vanilla, all beaten together until white and shiny. PUIG ORWaNU LGA KE, A cup of butter, two of sugar, three of flour, one of sweet milk, whites of seven and yolks of two eggs, a teaspoon soda, two of cream tartar, one pint hickory meats, rolled and sprinkled with flour; beat the whites to a stiff froth. Rich and excellent. Mrs. JAMES Day. WHITE CAKE. Whites of eight eggs, one cup butter, two and a half cups sugar, four cups flour, one cup sweet milk, and two teaspoons Royal baking powder

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