Aunt Myra's White Cake
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Handwritten butter-and-lard or shortening adaptation
Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten two-sided card
Yield: Bake in 2 larger cake tins
Ingredients
- 1 large tablespoon butter
- 1 large tablespoon lard
- or use 2 tablespoons Vegetable shortening
- 1 cup sugar; Creamed with shortening
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 Cup Milk
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions
- Cream together.
- Sift together
- (for loaf Cake use chopped Nuts.)
- Bake in 2 larger cake tins
- 375 degree for about 25 min.
Timing: for about 25 min.
Temperature: 375 degree
Equipment: measuring cups and spoons; mixing bowls and utensils; beater or mixer; flour sifter; 2 larger cake tins; oven
Notes
- (for loaf Cake use chopped Nuts.)
As written
one
Arwilda’s changes
- Crossed-out handwritten pan text appears between “2” and “larger cake tins”; original reading is unresolved.
Typed vegetable-shortening white cake
Decorative Recipe Tin typed two-sided card
From Aunt Myra's.
Ingredients
- 2 large tablespoon vegetable shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions
- Cream shortening and sugar; add beaten egg and milk.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt add to the mixture.
- Add vanilla and beat [continuation marker: (over)] / until creamy.
- Bake in 2 layer cake pans,
- Bake at 375 degree for about 25 to 30 minutes.
Timing: about 25 to 30 minutes
Temperature: 375 degree
Equipment: oven; 2 layer cake pans
Notes
- (over)
Compare the cards
Shortening and salt
- Decorative Recipe Tin typed two-sided card
- 2 large tablespoons vegetable shortening; 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten two-sided card
- 1 large tablespoon butter plus 1 large tablespoon lard, or 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening; 1/2 teaspoon salt
Loaf-cake nuts
- Decorative Recipe Tin typed two-sided card
- No loaf-cake or nut alternative
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten two-sided card
- For loaf Cake use chopped Nuts
Mixing detail, pan term, and bake duration
- Decorative Recipe Tin typed two-sided card
- Full creaming, addition, sifting, and beating method; 2 layer cake pans; about 25 to 30 minutes
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten two-sided card
- Terse Cream together and Sift together notes; 2 layer Cake tins; about 25 minutes
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