Snow Cake

The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Til... · Lady Clark of Tillypronie · 1909

Source: The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie
Time: Cook: 90 min Total: 90 min
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (4)

1 lb. arrowroot ↝ Arrowroot, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
1/2 lb. refined sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
1/4 lb. best fresh butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
5 eggs ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]

Instructions (4)

Roll arrowroot and sugar very smooth; mix them together, and flavour as you like; pass through a fine sieve
beat the butter to a cream
break into it the 5 yolks of egg, and when well mixed, add very gradually the arrowroot and sugar
whisk the 5 whites to a stiff froth, and add them to the above just before putting it into the baking tin

Original Text

Snow Cake. (Learney. 1874.)
1 lb. arrowroot, ½ lb. refined sugar, ¼ lb. best fresh butter, 5 eggs. Roll arrowroot and sugar very smooth; mix them together, and flavour as you like; pass through a fine sieve; beat the butter to a cream; break into it the 5 yolks of egg, and when well mixed, add very gradually the arrowroot and sugar; whisk the 5 whites to a stiff froth, and add them to the above just before putting it into the baking tin. 1½ hours in a moderate oven.

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