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Angel Cake

Ingredients

• 1 tumbler of flour
• 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• 1 1/2 glasses of white powdered sugar
• whites of 11 eggs
• 3 teaspoonfuls of vanilla extract

Instructions

Put into flour and cream of tartar, then sift it five times. Sift also white powdered sugar. Beat to a stiff froth the egg whites; stir the sugar into the eggs by degrees, very lightly and carefully, adding vanilla extract. After this add the flour, stirring quickly and lightly. Pour it into a clean, bright tin cake-dish, which should not be buttered or lined. Bake at once in a moderate oven about forty minutes, testing it with a broom splint. When done let it remain in the cake-tin, turning it upside down, with the sides resting on the tops of two saucers so that a current of air will pass under and over it.

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Source

The White House Cookbook (1887).