Angel's Food

Ingredients

• Eleven egg whites
• One and a half tumblers (1 7/8 cups) of sifted powdered sugar. [The tumbler (a glass for measuring) must have dimensions of 2 1/2 gills (1 1/4 cups)]
• One tumbler (1 1/4 cups) of sifted flour
• One teaspoon cream of tartar
• Vanilla to taste

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to a moderate heat appropriate for baking.
2. Sift the flour four times, leaving the tumbler even full.
3. Add the cream of tartar to the flour and sift again.
4. Beat the eggs to a stiff froth on a dish while lightly adding the sugar, flour, and vanilla into the egg froth. 
5. Place the beaten stiff froth immediately into an un-greased pan and into the oven to bake.
6. Bake for 40 minutes. Do not open the oven at all for at least 15 minutes. If still soft after 40, leave it in the oven an extra few minutes. 
7. Remove from oven and leave the pan upside down to cool.
8. Take the cake out of the pan by gently loosening it with a knife.
9. Ice the cake before serving.

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Margaret Boston
Louisiana Anthology
June 27, 2021