Velvet Cake
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- 1½ cups sugar
- Yolks 4 eggs
- ½ cup cold water
- 1½ cups flour
- ½ cup corn-starch
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- Whites 4 eggs
- ⅓ cup almonds, blanched, and shredded
Steps
- Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs well beaten, and water. Mix and sift flour, corn-starch, and baking powder, and add to first mixture; then add whites of eggs beaten until stiff. After putting in pan, cover with almonds and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven.
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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.