Emily's White Cake

Categories: Cakes

Serves: 1 Servings

Ingredients:

1/2 c Crisco
1 1/2 c Sugar
3 c Flour
3 ts Baking powder
1 ts Salt
1 c Water
1 ts Flavoring
Whites of 3 eggs

Instructions:
Cream Crisco. Add sugar slowly and cream together. Sift dry ingredients and
add alternately with the liquid. Add flavoring, beat mixture thoroughly and
last fold in stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Prepare layer-cake tins by
greasing them with a mixture of Crisco and flour. Pour in cake mixture; put
in moderate oven, allow to rise for five minutes, increase heat to bake; at
the end of fifteen minutes, reduce heat to allow cake to shrink from pan.
Entire time for baking twenty minutes. NOTE: I copied this faithfully from
the source, THE WAYS OF COOKING" circa
1919 from Crisco.
Posted to EAT-L Digest 25 Sep 96

Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:19:37 -0500

From: LD Goss

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