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HvKTy Up Cake

Name: HvKTy Up Cake
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: ½ cup sugar; 1½ cups flour; 4 tablespoons shortening; ½ teaspoon almond extract; ½ teaspoon lemon extract; 2 egg whites; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 cup milk

From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.

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Ingredients

6 servings

½ cup sugar
1½ cups flour
4 tablespoons shortening
½ teaspoon almond extract
½ teaspoon lemon extract
2 egg whites
½ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup milk

Method

Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar into a bowl.
Put egg whites into a measuring cup, add shortening, and fill the cup to the 1-cup line with milk.
Add the liquid mixture and extracts to the dry ingredients and beat vigorously for 6 minutes.
Pour into a small greased and floured cake tin and bake at 350°F for 45 minutes.

Original recipe, verbatim

HvKTy Up Cake

y^ cupful sugar yi teaspoonful lemon extract

yi cupfuls flour 2 whites of eggs

4 tablespoonfuls Crisco Y^ teaspoonful salt

y2 teaspoonful almond extract 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder

Milk

Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar into bowl. Put whites of
eggs into measuring cup, add Crisco, and fill cup with milk. Add to dry
mixture with extracts and beat vigorously six minutes. Pour into small
Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake in moderate oven forty-five minutes.
Cake may be frosted if liked.

Sufficient for one small cake.

Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.

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