Cream together the butter and sugar, add flour sifted with baking powder alternately with the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. The five yolks of eggs left from baking white cake may be used when making salad dressing. Use five yolks instead of three whole eggs, as called for in recipe for salad dressing.
CHOCOLATE ICING (VERY GOOD)
One-quarter cup grated, unsweetened chocolate, ¼ cup milk, half a cup sugar. Boil all together until thick and creamy. This quantity will be sufficient to ice the top of one ordinary cake. Spread icing on cake before icing cools. When this icing is used for layer cake, double the recipe.
TIP-TOP CAKE
- 1 lb. granulated sugar.
- 1 cup butter.
- 1 cup milk.
- 4 eggs.
- 1 lb. chopped raisins. (Citron may be used instead of raisins.)
- ½ a nutmeg, grated.
- 5 scant cups of flour.
- 5 teaspoonfuls baking powder.
Mix together same as ordinary cake and bake in a loaf. This Aunt Sarah considered one of her finest cake recipes. She had used it for years in her family. The friend who gave this recipe to Aunt Sarah said: "A couple of tablespoonfuls of brandy will improve the cake."