White Mountain Layer Cake

Ingredients

• One cupful of butter
• Three cupfuls of sugar
• One cupful of milk
• Six eggs (whites)
• One and a-half tea-spoonful of baking-powder
• One pint of flour (sifted)
• Twenty drops of extract of bitter almond

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and sugar to a light cream, and add the milk and then the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth.

2. 2

   Sift the flour with the powder, and add it and the extract.

3. 3

   Mix all well together, divide the batter among four tins, and bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 235. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHITE MOUNTAIN LAYER CAKE. The following will make four large layers, thus forming a good-sized cake: One cupful of butter. Three cupfuls of sugar. One cupful of milk. Six eggs (whites). One and a-half tea-spoonful of baking-powder. One pint of flour (sifted). Twenty drops of extract of bitter ahnond

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