White or Silver Cake
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup of butter
- 1 heaping cupful of powdered sugar
- 2 cups of flour
- 1 teaspoonful of baking powder sifted in the flour
- 1/2 cup of milk
- whites of 6 eggs
- 1 teaspoonful of almond extract
Instructions
Cream the butter, and add the flour, beating till it is a smooth paste. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, and add the sugar and essence. Now mix both quickly, and bake in a sheet about an inch and a half thick. About half an hour will be needed. Frost while hot. Before the frosting is quite hard, divide it into oblong or square pieces, scoring at intervals with the back of a large knife. The milk can be omitted if a richer cake is wanted. It may also be baked in jelly-cake tins; one small cocoanut grated, and mixed with one cup of sugar, and spread between, and the whole frosted. Or beat the white of an egg with one cup of sugar, and the juice of one large or two small oranges, and spread between. Either form is delicious.
Frosting
- 1 white of egg
- 1 small cup of sifted powdered sugar
- juice of 1/2 lemon
Instructions
Beat egg white ten minutes with powdered sugar and lemon juice. This frosting hardens very quickly.
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Source
The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking (1903)