Bride's Cake
1 pound flour. 3/4 pounds sugar. 1/2 pound butter. Whites of 14 eggs. Cream sugar and butter together, and stir in them flour and beaten whites, very little at a time; one and a half pounds fruit, prepared and mixed with batter, will make a nice fruit cake.--Mrs. H. D.
Bride's Cake.
Whites of 18 eggs. 1 1/4 pounds sugar. 1 pound flour. 3/4 pound butter. Cream butter and sugar together; whip the eggs to a stiff froth, then add gradually, flour, butter, sugar.
Season with lemon or brandy. Bake as pound cake.-Mrs. R. E. Bride's Cake. 1 1/2 pounds flour. 1 1/2 pounds sugar. 1 1/8 pounds butter. Whites of 20 eggs. 1/2 a teaspoon of powdered ammonia dissolved in 1/2 a wineglass of brandy.
Heavy plain icing. 1 1/2 pound mould.
Insert the ring after the cake is baked.--Miss. S.
Bride's Cake. 3/4 pound flour. 1/2 pound butter. 14 whites of eggs. 1 pound sugar-beat in the whites. The acid of 1 green lemon.
Double for one and a half pound cake.-Mrs. J.