Bride’s Cake
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 2 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 4 egg whites
- 2/3 cup milk
Directions
- Cream the butter, add the sugar and continue creaming the mixture.
- Mix and sift three times the flour, salt, baking powder and cream of tartar.
- Add these dry ingredients alternately with the milk to the first mixture.
- Add the almond and vanilla extracts.
- Beat two minutes.
- Cut and fold in the egg-whites which have been stiffly beaten.
- Pour the cake batter into a large, round loaf cake pan, having a hole in the center.
- Bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven.
- When the cake is removed from the oven, allow it to stand in a warm place for five minutes, then with a spatula and a sharp knife, carefully loosen the cake from the sides, and turn out onto a cake cooler.
- When cool, cover with white mountain cream icing.
Other Information
Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron
Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)
Category: Dessert
Ingredients: sugar, baking powder, cream of tartar, flour, butter, almond extract, vanilla, salt, egg white, milk
Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, knife, oven, egg beater, sifter
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