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ANGEL'S FOOD CAKE

The Blue Grass Cook Book
Compiled by Minnie C. Fox (1904)


ANGEL'S FOOD CAKE
Miss Annie White


Whites of 12 eggs,

10 ounces icing sugar,

3 1/2 ounces flour,

1 teaspoon vanilla,

1 teaspoon cream of tartar.


Sift flour 5 times; add cream of tartar and sift again. Sift sugar 3 times. Beat eggs very light; add sugar, vanilla, and flour last, stirred in very lightly. Bake 50 or 60 minutes. When done, do not take out of mould till cold. The mould should be greased only on the bottom. When taken out of the oven it must be turned upside down on something to let the air to it.
 

The complete Blue Grass Cook Book may also be found on the Michigan State University website:
'Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project'
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/