Angel Food Cake
Arwilda kept two Angel Cake cards, including one associated with Susan Ann Cole.
Complete Decorative Recipe Tin Angel Cake formula
Decorative Recipe Tin Angel Cake card
Ingredients
- 1 cup cake flour
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 3/4 cups egg whites
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp vanilla
Directions
- Sift flour four times with 3/4 cup sugar.
- Beat egg whites with salt until stiff.
- Add cream of tartar and beat again.
- Add remaining sugar tablespoons at a time folding in thoroughly.
- Add vanilla with last bit of sugar.
- Sift flour mixture over top a little at a time and fold in lightly.
- Bake in ungreased Angel tin pan at 325° for 75 min.
- Turn upside down in pan to cool.
Timing: 75 min.
Temperature: 325°
Equipment: Angel tin pan
Susan Ann Cole attribution-only Angel Food Cake partial recipe
Green Recipe Box Susan Ann Cole title card
by Susan Ann Cole.
Notes
- A small word resembling baby is written beneath Cole; the reverse is blank except for stains.
Compare the cards
Recipe content
- Decorative Recipe Tin Angel Cake card
- Complete formula and method through baking and inverted cooling.
- Green Recipe Box Susan Ann Cole title card
- Title and attribution only; no formula or method is included.
Name on the card
- Decorative Recipe Tin Angel Cake card
- No attribution stated.
- Green Recipe Box Susan Ann Cole title card
- by Susan Ann Cole; a smaller word resembling baby has unresolved meaning.
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