White Perfection Cake

Ingredients

• 3 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup milk
• 3 cups flour
• 1 cup cornstarch
• whites of 12 eggs beaten to a stiff froth
• 2 teaspoons cream tartar in the flour
• 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in half the milk

Method

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   Dissolve the cornstarch in half the milk and add it to the sugar and butter, well beaten together, then the rest of milk and soda and the flour and whites of eggs.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Raleigh cook book (1907) by N.C.). Ladies' Church Improvement Society First Baptist Church (Raleigh, page 31. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White Perfection Cake.—3 cups sugar; 1 cup butter; 1 cup milk; 3 cups flour; 1 cup cornstarch; whites of 12 eggs beaten to a stiff froth; 2 teaspoons cream tartar in the flour; 1 teaspoon soda dis- solved in half the mil

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