Nut Cake

The cake and biscuit book · Douglas, Elizabeth · 1903

Source: The cake and biscuit book
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (7)

11/2 cups sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
1/2 cup butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
2 cups flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
3/4 cup milk ↝ Milk, NFS [Milk, reduced fat]
Whites of four eggs ↝ Egg, white only, raw [Eggs and omelets]
1 cup broken nuts ↝ Nuts, pine nuts, raw [Nut and Seed Products]
2 tea-spoons baking powder ↝ Baobab powder [Fruits and Fruit Juices]

Instructions (9)

Cream the butter.
Add the sugar.
Beat well.
Mix the baking powder with the flour.
Add it to the mixture with the milk, beating well all the time.
Mix in the nuts thoroughly.
Lastly add the whites, which should be beaten as stiff as possible.
Bake in shallow square tins.
Ice.

Original Text

Nut Cake

1¹⁄₂ cups sugar ¹⁄₂ cup butter 2 cups flour ³⁄₄ cup milk Whites of four eggs 1 cup broken nuts 2 tea-spoons baking powder

Cream the butter. Add the sugar. Beat well. Mix the baking powder with the flour. Add it to the mixture with the milk, beating well all the time. Mix in the nuts thoroughly. Lastly add the whites, which should be beaten as stiff as possible. Bake in shallow square tins. Ice.

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