1880 Corn Starch Cake - Old Cookbook Show - Glen And Friends Cooking
This recipe is from the 1880 cookbook 'Buckeye Cookery' sent in by one of our viewers who is the Great Great Grandson of the author. This Corn Starch Cake recipe uses lemon as a flavouring - because lemon was probably easier to get in 1880s Ohio than vanilla would have been.
These old cookbooks are filled with great historic recipes and old cookbook recipes are a great way of tasting history, and connecting with the past. I love cooking history and making 100 year old recipes; the food history tells us so much about how people lived.

1880 Corn Starch Cake:
Two coffee-cups pulverized sugar, three-fourths cup butter, cup corn starch dissolved in a cup of sweet milk, two cups flour, whites of seven eggs, two tea-spoons cream tartar, tea-spoon soda mixed thoroughly with the flour; cream butter and sugar, add starch and milk, then add the whites and flour gradually until all is used. Flavor with lemon or rose.

I ended up baking this in a 9x13 pan at 350ºF for about 20-25 minutes.


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