White Cakes
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White Cakes

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup butter
  • 3 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
  • 2/3 cup milk
  • 2 cup sifted flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 egg whites

Directions

  1. Cream butter, add sugar, and continue creaming.
  2. Alternately add the dry ingredients mixed and sifted.
  3. Add the milk.
  4. Beat well, add flavoring.
  5. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites.
  6. Spread evenly, two-thirds of an inch thick, on waxed paper, placed in a pan.
  7. Bake twenty minutes in moderate oven.
  8. Remove from oven, allow cake to remain in pan five minutes.
  9. Carefully remove and cool.
  10. Cut with fancy cutters.

Other Information

Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron

Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)

Category: Dessert

Ingredients: butter, baking powder, sugar, lemon extract, milk, flour, vanilla, egg white

Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, knife, oven, egg beater, sifter

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