White Cakes
*Almond Cake—I
1 lb. flour
¹⁄₂ lb. sweet almonds
10 bitter almonds
1 lb. white sugar
8 eggs
1 wine-glass brandy
Blanch and pound the almonds. Beat the yolks and sugar together till light and creamy. Whisk the whites to a stiff froth. Add them to the butter and sugar.
Stir in the flour until thoroughly mixed. Add the almonds. Bake in a tin lined with greased paper, in a moderate oven for an hour and a half.
Almond Cake—II
7 eggs
¹⁄₂ lb. sifted sugar
¹⁄₂ lb. almonds
Blanch and pound the almonds. Beat up the yolks of the eggs for ten minutes. Add the sugar. Beat again thoroughly. Add the almonds. When well mixed add the whites, which should be beaten stiff. Bake in a German tin (see p. 1).
*Angel Cake
¹⁄₂ pint fine flour
1 tea-spoon cream of tartar
³⁄₄ pint powdered sugar
11 whites of eggs
3 tea-spoons vanilla
Add the cream of tartar to the flour. Sift five times. Sift the sugar. Beat the whites to a stiff froth. Stir the sugar lightly into the whites of eggs. Add the vanilla. Add the flour. Stir in lightly and quickly. Pour into a clean bright tin. It must not be buttered. Bake in a moderate oven for forty minutes. When done leave in the tin, inverted on its edge (not completely upside down) on a sieve until cold.
Cocoanut Cake
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
3 cups flour
4 whites of eggs
1 small cup milk
1 tea-spoon baking powder
¹⁄₂ small cocoanut grated
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream. Sift the flour with the baking powder. Add it to the mixture gradually moistening it with the milk. When thoroughly mixed add the grated cocoanut. Beat for ten minutes. Stir in the whites beaten to a stiff froth very lightly. Bake immediately in a buttered tin in a moderate oven.
*Cocoanut Pound Cake
¹⁄₂ lb. butter
1 lb. sifted flour
1 lb. powdered sugar
2 tea-spoons baking powder
1 tea-spoon grated lemon peel
¹⁄₄ lb. grated or desiccated cocoanut
4 eggs
1 cupful milk
Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar. Beat again. Add the sifted flour (in which the baking powder has been mixed), well-beaten eggs and milk alternately in small quantities. Stir all well together. Add the cocoanut and lemon peel. Beat well together.
Use shallow square tins. Butter them and line as well with buttered paper. Pour the mixture in to the depth of an inch and a half. Bake in a quick oven. Ice while hot and set back in the oven for a moment to dry.
Dutch Almond Cake
1 lb. sweet almonds
¹⁄₂ oz. bitter almonds
1 lb. powdered sugar
12 eggs
5 table-spoons pounded biscuit or flour
Rose water
Blanch and pound the almonds, adding to them a little rose water. Beat up the yolks. Add them to the sugar and beat thoroughly together. Then add the whites, whisked to a stiff froth, and the pounded almonds. Add the finely crushed biscuits or flour. Bake in a moderate oven in a German tin lined with greased paper.
Eversley Cake
5 ozs. butter
6 ozs. best flour
3 eggs
5 ozs. castor sugar
¹⁄₂ tea-spoon baking powder
¹⁄₄ lb. mixed peel
Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar, then the flour, and well-beaten eggs, the sliced peel and lastly the baking powder. Beat altogether for twenty minutes and bake in a good oven for an hour.
Lady Cake
1 cup butter
2 cups powdered sugar
3 cups flour
¹⁄₂ cup milk
Whites of 8 eggs
2 tea-spoons cream of tartar
1 tea-spoon carbonate of soda
1 tea-spoon extract of almonds
Beat the butter to a cream. Stir in the sugar gradually, beating hard all the time. Mix the cream of tartar with the flour, and the soda with the milk. Add flour and milk alternately in small quantities, beating continually. Add the flavouring, and then stir in the stiffly-beaten whites lightly. Bake in a moderate oven in a tin lined with greased paper.
*Potato Flour Cake
1 lb. butter
11 eggs
1 lb. sugar
1 lb. potato flour
1 wine-glass rum
Soften the butter. Then beat it until very light and creamy. Add to it alternately one whole egg, one table-spoon flour, one table-spoon sugar, beating well between each addition. When about half the materials are used add the rum. Add the rest of the ingredients alternately as before. From first to last the cake should be beaten for an hour. Bake in a buttered tin for one hour and a half to two hours.
*Pound Cake—I
1 lb. butter
1 lb. powdered sugar
10 eggs
1 lb. flour
¹⁄₂ wine-glass sherry
¹⁄₂ wine-glass brandy
Cream the butter. Add the sugar and well beaten yolks. Beat thoroughly. Add the flour and wine, beating all the time. Stir in the whites, which should be whisked to a stiff froth. Bake in three or four small well greased tins in a moderate oven, as this cake is always lighter if baked in small tins. Crystallised cherries halved are an excellent addition to a pound cake. They should be thoroughly mixed in the cake before the whites are added.
Pound Cake—II
1 lb. flour
1 lb. eggs
1 lb. sugar
³⁄₄ lb. butter
1 glass brandy
Beat the butter and half of the flour until light and creamy. Add the brandy. Beat the yolks thoroughly and add them alternately with the stiffly beaten whites and the rest of the flour. Beat all together for half-an-hour. Bake in two tins in a moderate oven for about an hour.
*Rice Cake—I
6 yolks
3 whites
Grated peel of one lemon
4 ozs. flour
¹⁄₂ lb. ground rice
¹⁄₂ lb. powdered sugar
Beat the yolks and whites separately. Add the grated rind to the yolks. Beat again and add the whites. Mix well. Mix the flour, rice and sugar together. Add the eggs gradually, beating continually for about an hour. Bake in a tin lined with greased paper in a slow oven for about an hour.
Rice Cake—II
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2¹⁄₄ cups rice flour
6 eggs
Juice and grated rind of a lemon
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream. Add the well beaten yolks and the flour. Beat thoroughly for five minutes. Add the lemon juice and rind and the stiffly beaten whites.
Bake in shallow square tins in which the depth of the mixture when poured in is less than two inches.
Bake thirty-five to forty-five minutes in a moderate oven.
Rice Cake—III
4 ozs. butter
2 eggs
4 ozs. powdered sugar
4 ozs. ground rice
6 ozs. flour
1 tea-spoon baking powder
Beat the butter to a cream and add the sugar. Beat the eggs till creamy and light, and add them with the flour (in which the baking powder should be mixed) and ground rice. Add a little milk and a few drops of essence of lemon or vanilla. Bake in a moderate oven for three quarters of an hour.
*Snow Cake
1 lb. arrowroot
¹⁄₂ lb. powdered sugar
¹⁄₂ lb. butter
Whites of six eggs
Vanilla or lemon flavouring
Beat the butter to a cream. Stir in the sugar and beat well again. Add the arrowroot, beating all the time vigorously. Whisk the whites to a stiff froth. Add them to the mixture. Beat all together for twenty minutes. Add a little vanilla or the juice or rind of a lemon. Bake in a buttered mould in a moderate oven for from one hour to one hour and a half.
*White Cake—I
1 cup butter
3 cups powdered sugar
1 cup milk
5 cups sifted flour
1 tea-spoon carbonate of soda
2 tea-spoons cream of tartar
Whites of twelve eggs
1 tea-spoon vanilla
Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar. Beat well. Add the soda to the milk and the cream of tartar to the flour. Add flour and milk to the mixture, beating hard all the time. Beat the eggs to a stiff froth. Add them and the vanilla. Bake in two tins lined with greased paper. The oven should be slow at first, then moderate.
White Cake—II
3 cups sugar
¹⁄₂ cup butter
1 cup sweet milk
2 tea-spoons cream of tartar
1 tea-spoon carbonate of soda
3 cups flour
Whites of four eggs
Mix as for the first receipt.
*White Cake—III
3 cups powdered sugar
1 cup butter
1 cup milk
3 cups flour
1 cup corn starch
12 whites of eggs
2 tea-spoons cream of tartar
1 tea-spoon carbonate of soda
Mix the cream of tartar thoroughly with the flour and dissolve the soda in half of the milk. Stir the cornflour in the rest of the milk until perfectly smooth.
Beat the butter and yolks together until creamy. Add the corn starch paste. Stir it well in. Add the milk and soda and the flour. Beat the whites to a stiff froth and stir in lightly. Bake in two papered tins in a moderate oven.