White Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sweet milk
• 3 cups flour
• 4 egg whites
• 3 small tsps. baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add milk and flour slowly.

2. 2

   (Have baking powder well sifted thru the flour).

3. 3

   Add beaten whites last of all.

4. 4

   Flavor with bitter almond.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Carolina cookery from Quaker kitchens (1924) by High Point Friends Meeting. Woman's Auxiliary, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 cup butter 1 salt spoon salt 2 cups sugar 1 cup milk 3 cups flour 2 tsps. baking powder 4 eggs Cream butter and sugar, adding yolks one at a time. Sift dry ingredients twice. Add alternately with milk and lastly fold in stiffly beaten whites of egg. Bake in a moderate oven. _—Mrs. .S., 8S. Wood. PRINCE OF WALES CAKE Black Part— 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup chopped raisins % cup butter 1 tbs. molasses % eup sour milk 3 egg yolks 2 cups flour 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. soda dissolved in 1 tsp. nutmeg warm water % tsp. cloves Sood Bee, CAROLINA COOKERY FROM QUAKER KITCHENS White Part— 1 cup flour % cup butter 1% cup corn starch 1 cup sugar % cup sweet milk 1 tsp. baking powder 3 egg whites Bake in layers and put together alternating color. Use 3a boiled icing between layers. —Mrs, Allen Blair. SNOW BALLS 1 cup white sugar 3 tsps. baking powder 1 cup thick cream 1% tsp. almond flavoring or 5 whites of egg any preferred flavoring 2 cups flour Sift dry ingredients, add cream and fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and add flavoring. Bake in small well greased pans and cover with a plain white icing when cool. —Mrs. Allen J. Blair. SPICE CAKE % cup butter 3 cups flour 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. soda 3 eggs 1 tsp. baking powder 1 cup buttermilk 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 cup dark Karo syrup % tsp. ginger % tsp. cloves Mix like sponge cake. —Mrs. L. L. Farlow. CHOCOLATE CAKE 2 cups brown sugar 1% cup hot water % pound of butter 2 cups pastry flour 2 eggs % cup of buttermilk 1 sq. of bitter chocolate 1 tsp. soda 1 tsp. baking powder Sift sugar, and cream with butter, beat eggs well and add to the creamed sugar and butter. Dissolve the chocolate in the cup of hot water and add. Add the soda to the buttermilk, and baking powder to flour, sifting the flour three times. This will keep moist for days. —Miss Effie Cox. wp Gai CAROLINA COOKERY FROM QUAKER. KITCHENS WHITE CAKE 2 cups sugar 1 cup sweet milk % cup butter 3 cups flour 4 egg whites 3 small tsps. baking powder

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