Cream Cake (Betsy Vaughn.)
Origin: Clarksville, Tennessee
Source: Martha McCulloch-Williams, 1913
Ingredients
- 2 cups butter
- 3 cups sugar
- 1 cup sweet cream
- 4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 14 egg whites
- bitter almond flavoring
- pink icing
Instructions
- Cream together the butter, sugar, and sweet cream until very light.
- Gradually add the flour that has been sifted with baking powder.
- Fold in the egg whites, which have been beaten very stiff with a pinch of salt.
- Flavor with bitter almonds.
- Bake in loaves or layers.
- Frost with pink icing flavored with rose water.