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DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING WHITE CAKE
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DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING WHITE CAKE

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

839
Calories
29g
Protein
20g
Fat
137g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Grape 1/2 cup (76g) 62
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Walnut 1 walnut half (4g) 26
Pecan 1 half (4g) 20

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3 cup milk
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 cups of sugar
  • 3 cups of flour
  • 1 cup milk
  • 8 teaspoons baking powder
  • one pound raisins
  • 1 cup sweet milk
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 cup raisins cut in pieces
  • 1 cup pecans
  • 2 whites
  • 3 whites
  • 4 eggs
  • 1/2 cupibutter
  • 5 whites of eggs well beat
  • one pound english walnuts mixed
  • two layers
  • one cocoanut
  • 6 whites

Directions

1

First get pans ready. Cut white 'or light brown paper to fit bottom of pan to be used, brush with melted butter on bottom and sides; keep brush for this purpose. Sift flour, measure and sift four or five times with baking pow- d^. Beat eggs stiff; cream butter; add sugar, and work Very light; add alternately the milk, littlfe at a time; the flour and whites; then the flavoring. Bake in layers or loaves, or large sheets. Turn out^oh linen cloth on firm foundation, remove pan an^ paper, leave to cool.

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WHITE CAKE NO. 1.

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2 whites. V4, cup butter.

4

34.. cups sugar. 1 teaspoon baking powder.

5

1^ cups flour. V2 cup milk.

6

Flavor with vanilla and lemon.

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WHITE CAKE NO. 2.

8

3 whites. 2 cups flour.

9

y^ cup butter. 2 teaspoons baking powder.

10

1^2 cups sugar. 2-3 cup milk.

11

Flavor with orange and lemon.

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WHITE CAKE NO. 3. C<

13

Whites 4 eggs. 1/2 cupibutter.

14

1 cup sugar. 2^2 cups flour.

15

Vz cup milk. 2 teaspoons baking powder.

16

Flavor with orange, vanilla and lemon.

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NEVER FALL WHITE CAKE NO. 4.

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5 whites of eggs well beat. 2 cups of sugar. V2 cup butter. 3 cups of flour.

19

1 cup milk. 8 teaspoons baking powder,

20

If you wish a nut cake, add one pound raisins and meat of one pound English walnuts mixed and dredged with part of the flour. Bake in two layers and when cold pour over them the milk of one cocoanut. Grate the cocoanut and put the cake together with that and the white icing. The yolks of the eggs with the same measure of ingredients can be used for a good yellow cake.

21

DAISY WHITE CAKE NO. 5.

22

6 whites. IM,. cups sugar. 31/^ cups flour. % cup butter.

23

1 cup sweet milk. 3 teaspoons baking powder.

24

Vanilla and orange flavor. Bake in two layers.

25

LADY BALTIMORE CAKE. "^

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Make six-egg white cake. Flavor with rosewater and ice with white icing. Put the following in flUing : 1 cup raisins cut in pieces, i/^ cup flgs, if liked. 1 cup pecans or walnuts, cut.

27

Mix with icing and put between cake. Ice plain and put fruit on top of cake. The same kind, only use raisins whole, nuts in half and figs in strips.

By Wilson, Mary Elizabeth Lyles, 1860-1924 · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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