Sweet Baked Goods Silver Cake

silver cake

(from Housekeeping in the Blue Grass, by the Paris Ladies of the Presbyterian Church, 1875)

Ingredients:

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6 eggs​

cream​

a teacup full of butter​

2 teacups of sugar​

a teacup of sweet milk​

1/2 tsp. of soda​

1 tsp. cream of tartar​

2 cups of flour​

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Instructions:

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Whites of six eggs, cream one tea-cupful of butter, two of sugar, one of sweet milk with one half-teaspoonful of soda, one tea-spoonful of cream of tartar, two full cups of flour. Bake quickly.​

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress​

 

[donna]

Somehow missed this thread when first posted. Silver Cake is a form of Angel Cake. It was popular before war and after.

This Cookbook is one of my personal favorites. Silver Cake or Angel Cake was popular in Kentucky. My Granny made them. She was know to take her Angel Cake/Silver Cake to Church picnics and Church Cake sales.