White Layer Cake
From Superior cook book, 1905
Serves 3
Recipe by Mrs. T. ,). Fly NX.
Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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Method
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This recipe was extracted from Superior cook book (1905) by Grace Church (Ishpeming, Mich.), page 93. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
One and one-half eups of sugar, whites of 11 eggs. 1 euj) of Dousuum's Echo pastry flour, 1 teaspoon ereaui of tartar. 1 teaspoon vanilla. Sift flour, sugar and eream of tartar together '> ui' (i times. Add to the well-heaten whites as lightly and with as little handling as possible. J'ake in slow oxen in a Jewel Range from % to 1 hour. LuELLA Ropi'is. White Cake. (^ne-half eup of huttcr (eream this hrst). IVl' eups of granulated sugar sifted 5 times, 1 teas])oonful of vanilla. 'I teaspoonfuls haking powder (heaping), -Vii eups of pastry Houi- sifted -") times, 1 eup of cold water, little salt, whites of 5 eggs, ("ream the butter and sugar, adtl the water, then stir in ahout 2 cups of flour, then vanilla and then the wdiites of the eggs beaten stiff*. Before add- ing the last half eu]) of flour and baking powder, beat the cake for 5 minutes. Bake in a Jewel Range, either in \\ layers or loaf cake. Measure flour and sugar after sifting. Miss Ursula Ropes. Mrs. H. F. Handford. ]\Iarquette. ^ri;s. TiiEO. D. Hall. Xegaunee. White Cake. Two cups sugar, ti cups J)ousman"s Best Patent flour. 1 cup butter. 1 cup sweet milk, 1 cup cornstarch, whites of S eggs, W teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon almond extract. Mix butter and sugar to a cream, then add the milk. Mix flour, cornstarch and baking poAvder and add by degrees the wdiites of tlie eggs, beaten very stiff', and lastly the flavoring. Bake in a Jewel Range. Mrs. T. A. Felch. White Cake. One and three-quarters of a cu]» of sugar, 1 cup of butter. 1 cup of cold water, \anilla, wdiites of 8 eggs, 'IV^ t'U])s of Dousman's J'est Patent flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in a Jewel ]»ange. Mrs. Harris. White Cake. • Two cups sugar. % cup butter, 1 cup millc. ;] cups Dousman's Best Patent flour, SUPERIOR COOK lK)OK 127 '2 licapiiii;' loii.'^pdoiis hakini;' pDwdcr, xaiiilla. whites of S c.ii'.^is Uoatcn (o a I'rdth (stiJP. Civaiii butter and supu- xcrv liui't, add milk. Ilicn licat in the Hour and whites of eaa's. alternately, until all of eaiis and Hour are u.-^ed. IJeatin^ llns cake well makes it mueli liner. .Makes I layers or 'i hars. Mljs. Axwr^Ll,. Gold Cake to go with it. One eup butter. "2 eu[)s siiuar. 1 cuii milk. ;! leaspoons baking;- powder, o cups Uousman's Best Patent, flour, yolks of S cnj^s and "i whole e,i:',ii's. Whites beaten and ])nt in last. T.omon extract, liake in a .lewel IJanuf. Mi;s. A'i"\vi:r.i.. White Layer Cake. One eup uranulatt'd su<;'ar. ',•_. cup bullei' (cream buller and su,uai'). ' ^. eup uulk. \U cuj) cornstarch. l\/-> cups Dousman's Best Patent Hour, 'i teaspoons baking;; powder, whites of '.] ei:'^'s beaten stilT. pinch of salt. I-Jake in a -lewel Han.iie. Mi;s. .1. S. Olson. White Layer Cake. One and one-half cups of sui^ar. [■_, vu\) of butlt'r. -j.^ cup of nnlk. whites of 4 eggs, 2 cups of sifted Dousman's Pest Patent flour (sift 4 times). 1 teas])oonrul of soda in floui' also. 1'^. teaspoonfuls ci
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