White Cake

Ingredients

• Whites of five eggs
• one-half cup butter
• one and one-half cups sugar
• two cups pastry flour
• one teaspoonful cream tartar
• one-half teaspoonful soda
• one and one-half teaspoonfuls baking powder
• juice of half a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream.

2. 2

   Gradually add the sugar, then the lemon, and when very light, add the milk, and whites beaten to a stiff froth.

3. 3

   Then add the flour, in which the soda and cream of tartar are well mixed.

4. 4

   Bake in layers or a loaf, in a moderate oven.

5. 5

   When nearly cool, frost with whites of three eggs, two large cups of powdered sugar, and a small package of grated cocoanut.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Some simple Sunday suppers (1895) by Suzan Sweeney Snapp, page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White Cake Oolong Lemonade QtXtbpiYI (DfJicflCH. Boil a chicken until tender. When (Mrs. Rorer.) cold, cut in small pieces, remov- ing all bones. To a quart of the chopped meat allow: Three hard-boiled eggs; one tablespoonful of flour; one- half cup cream; one -half cup butter; one gill (eight tablespoonfuls) sherry ; one-quarter teaspoonful ground mace; one-eighth teaspoonful ground cloves. Salt and pepper to taste. Rub the butter and flour together. Add this to chicken, cream and seasoning, putting all into a saucepan. Chop the whites of eggs fine, mash the yolks to a paste with a few spoonfuls of the cream, and add all to the chicken. Stir all together until it comes to the boiling point. Do not add wine until just before serving. This can be prepared the day before it is wanted. Heat through, and add wine just before serving. 28 Vegetable Salad — See 1 1 Salads," No. 11. rWQlft (Cfliic. Whites of five eggs; one-half cup but- ter; one and one-half cups sugar; two cups pastry flour ; one teaspoonful cream tartar ; one- half teaspoonful soda, or one and one-half teaspoonfuls baking powder; juice of half a lemon

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