White Loaf Cake

Ingredients

• Whites of 1 doz. eggs
• ¾ lb. of good country butter
• 2½ cups of white sugar
• 5 cups of flour
• 1 good teaspoonful of baking powder
• 1 teaspoonful of vanilla
• 1 teaspoonful of lemon
• 1 cup of sweet milk

Method

1. 1

   To mix: Cream butter well, add sugar, cream again, then add to butter and sugar 1 good cup sweet milk, cream milk well into the sugar and butter, then add half flour well sifted, mix, then add half of whites of eggs, mix well, then add rest of flour, mix again well, then add all whites of eggs, flavoring, and bake at once in slow oven, keeping heat about same, for an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Two hundred tested recipes (1920) by North Carolina. Literature and Library Extension Department Woman's Club of Oxford, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHITE LOAF CAKE Whites of 1 doz. eggs beaten well, 34 lb. of good country butter, 2% cups of white sugar, 5 cups of flour, 1 good teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 tea- spoonful of vanilla, I teaspoonful of lemon, I cup of sweet milk

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