Morris Cake.
2 cups powdered sugar.
1 cup butter, creamed with the sugar.
4 cups flour.
5 eggs beaten light, the yolks strained.
1 rather large cup sour cream, or loppered milk.
½ grated nutmeg.
1 teaspoonful vanilla.
1 teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in hot water.
Stir beaten yolks, butter, and sugar together, and beat very light. Put in nutmeg and vanilla, the sour cream, half the flour, the soda-water, and the rest of the flour. Beat with steady strokes five minutes, bringing up batter from the bottom of the bowl at every sweep of the wooden spoon. In this way you drive the air into the cells of the egg-batter, instead of out of them. This is a knack in the cake-maker’s art that is too little understood and practised.
Remember, then, that the motion should always be upward, and the spoon always come up full.
Bake in two loaves, or several smaller ones. The oven should not be too quick.