Delicate Cake

Ingredients

• One teacupful of melted Butter
• Two cup of pulverized Sugar
• One teacupful of sweet milk
• One tablespoonful of vanilla
• Eight egg whites beaten to stiff forth
• Three teacupfuls of sifted floured
• Two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• A few Shredded Citrons

Directions

1. Stir one teacupful of melted butter and two cup of pulverized sugar to a cream.
2. Add one teacupful of sweet mild and one tablespoonful of vanilla and the eight whites eggs beaten to a stiff froth.
3. Add three teacupfuls of sifted flour(measured before sifting)
4. Poured it into the pan
5. Do not move the pans while baking until the cake is nearly done, unless it should bake too much on one side.
6. Take out the pan from the oven and the cake is ready.

Source - Cooking in Old Creole Days

Prepared by Dipson Baskota

Louisiana Anthology

January 6, 2015