Hickory Nut Cake

Name: Hickory Nut Cake
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon cream of tartar; ½ cup milk; 1 teaspoon milk; Whites of 3 eggs; ¾ cup chopped hickory, walnuts or pecan meats; ½ teaspoon soda dissolved in; 1½ cups flour; 1 cup sugar; ½ cup butter

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Settlement Cook Book

By Lizzie Black Kander

Published 1903

About

Ingredients

½ cup butter
1 cup sugar
Whites of 3<

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Cream the butter well with sugar, stir in the whites beaten stiff and beat until light and smooth; add milk and flour, alternately and continue stirring; add nuts, stir, then sprinkle the cream of tartar over the mixture and lastly stir in the soda dissolved in 1 teaspoon milk. Beat again and then pl