Bride’s Cake (Recipe from 1907)

Bride’s Cake (Recipe from 1907) >>>

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 289, 4 December 1907, Page 8

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Bride’s Cake with metric measurements

• 265 g sugar (1 1/4 cups)

• 170 g butter (3/4 cup)

• Cream together, then add:

• 8 egg whites, well beaten

• 120 ml sweet milk (1/2 cup)

• 315 g sifted flour (2 1/2 cups)

• 1 tsp cream of tartar

• Add cream of tartar to egg whites when half-beaten.

• 1/2 tsp baking soda (about 2.5 g) mixed into the flour

• Sift the flour mixture three times.

Instructions:

• Beat everything together hard.

• Do not grease or paper the pan.

• Invert when taken from the oven and leave until cool.