How To Make Loaf Cakes. Part 6
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This section is from the book "Mrs. Owens' Cook Book", by Frances E. Owens. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Owens' Cook Book.
How To Make Loaf Cakes. Part 6
Corn Starch Cake - Small Loaf
Whites of 3 eggs.
1/2 cup butter.
1/2 cup corn starch.
1 teaspoon baking powder.
1 cup sugar.
1 cup flour.
1/2 teaspoon lemon.
Eugenia Cake
1/2 cup butter.
1 cup sugar. 1/2 cup milk, 1 1/3 cups flour.
3 whites of eggs.
2 scant teaspoons baking powder.
Bake in a pan about 10x4 1/2 inches, 40 minutes, in a moderate oven. Frost with yellow frosting.
Canary Cake
1 1/2 cups sugar (powdered is best). 1/2 cup corn starch. Yolks 3 eggs. 1/2 cup water.
2 teaspoons baking powder, in 1 cup flour before sifting. 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Bake 35 minutes in tin 5x9 1/2 inches in moderate oven.
Frost with white frosting.
Snow-Ball Cake
Mrs. C. B.
1 cup sugar. 1 1/2 cups flour. 1/2 cup butter.
Whites of 3 eggs well beaten. 1/2 cup milk.
2 large teaspoons of baking powder.
Delicate Cake
Mrs. Belle Parker, Tollesboro, Ky.
Whites 13 eggs.
1 cup butter. 3 cups sugar.
1 cup sweet milk.
5 cups flour.
3 teaspoons baking powder. 1 teaspoon lemon extract.
Delicate Cake
1 cup butter.
2 cups sugar.
3 cups flour, after sifting. 1/2 cup milk.
Whites of 6 eggs.
2 teaspoons baking powder.
White Cake
2/3 cup butter.
1 1/2 cups sugar.
2/3 cup sweet milk.
3 cups flour.
1 teaspoon almond extract.
2 teaspoons baking powder.
7 whites of eggs.
Cora Belle's White Cake
Miss Cora Belle Howlett, Niles, Mich.
1/2 cup butter, scant.
2 cups sugar.
1 cup milk. 2 3/4 cups flour. Whites of 3 eggs.
3 teaspoons baking powder.
Hollis Cake
Mrs. Nellie Roe.
1/2 cup butter.
2 cups sugar. I cup milk. 3 1/2 cups flour.
3 eggs.
1 teaspoon cream of tartar. 1/2 teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon lemon.
Put soda in half the milk, the yolks of eggs in the other half. Beat whites stiff, and put in last. This cake requires a great deal of beating. Make one very large loaf, or two small ones.
Walnut Cake
Mrs. Duncan, Sing Sing, N. Y.
1/2 cup milk. 1 cup butter.
2 cups sugar.
3 cups flour.
4 eggs.
1 tablespoon baking powder. 2 cups walnut or hickory nut meats, cut small. *31
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Cake
1 cup butter.
2 cups sugar.
3 cups flour.
4 eggs.
1 cup milk.
1 teaspoon soda.
2 teaspoons cream of tartar.
Huckleberry Cake
1 cup butter.
2 cups sugar.
3 cups flour.
5 eggs.
1 cup sweet milk.
1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in spoon of hot water. 1 teaspoon each nutmeg and cinnamon. 1 quart huckleberries, dredged with flour, and stirred in lightly at the last.
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