Some of the best housewives think it advisable to cream the butter and flour together, and add the sugar to the yolks when these are whipped to a stiff froth, as it produces yellow specks when you add the sugar sooner. The whites must always be added last.
In making fruit cake, prepare the fruit the day before. In winter time, this may be easily and pleasantly done after tea. It requires a longer time to bake fruit cake, than plain. Every housekeeper should have a close cake-box in which to put cake after cooling it and wrapping it in a thick napkin.
White Cake.
The whites of 20 eggs.
1 pound of flour.
1 pound of butter.
1 pound of almonds.
Use a little more flour, if the almonds are omitted.—Mrs. Dr. S.
White Cake.
1 cup of butter.