Corn Starch Cake

Name: Corn Starch Cake
Ingredients: 1 cup sugar; 2 cups pulverized sugar; 1 cup corn starch dissolved in 2 cups flour; 2 cups flour; a cup of sweet milk; 2 tea-spoons baking powder; 7 eggs; 2 tea-spoons cream tartar; 1 tea-spoon soda; 6 eggs; 12 table-spoons sugar; 6 table-spoons butter; 3 eggs; 3 table-spoons sugar; 3 table-spoons lard; 1 table-spoon soda

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Sterrett, Laura C · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients

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Corn Starch Cake

Ingredients

Directions

1^ cups flour, § cup sweet milk,
\ cup corn starch, 2 tea-spoons baking powder.
CORN STARCH CAKE— No. 2.— Mrs. W. Price.
a cup of sweet milk, Whites of 7 eggs,
2 tea-spoons cream tartar, 1 tea-spoon soda.
Mix the soda and flour thoroughly, cream the butter and sugar, add starch and milk, then add the whites and flour gradually until all is used. Flavor with lemon or rose.
CRULLERS. — Mrs. F. F. Adams.
6 table-spoons butter, I nutmeg.
CRULLERS— No. 2,
3 eggs, 3 table-spoons sugar, 3 table-spoons lard, 1 table-spoon soda, Milk.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

999Calories

28 gProtein

44 gFat

121 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Lard	1 tbsp (12.8g)	115
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Sterrett, Laura C. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,955 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).
Milk + teatop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together738 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).