Delicate Cake

Ingredients

• One teacupful of melted butter
• Two teacupfuls of pulverized sugar
• One teacupful of sweet milk
• One tablespoonful of vanilla
• Eight egg whites
• Three teacupfuls of sifted flour
• Two teacupfuls of baking powder

Directions

1. Stir melted butter and sugar to a cream
2. Add milk, vanilla, and egg whites
3. Beat to a stiff froth
4. Mix together the sifted flour and baking powder and add to the mixture
5. Pour mixture into two cake pans
6. Do not move the pans while baking until the cake is nearly done baking
7. This makes two cakes
8. Take the same ingredients above and pour into a pan 
9. Stick full of nicely shred citron.

Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days.
Prepared by Laura McFatter
Louisiana Anthology
June 4, 2018