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    Old Mennonite Recipe: Delicate White Cake

    Published: Mar 27, 2017 · Updated: Mar 27, 2017 by Kevin Williams | Leave a Comment

    By Kevin Williams

    This is an old, old recipe from Grandma Nettie Wenger in the Dayton, Virginia Mennonite community.  This is a very old Old Order Mennonite community where recipes are prized and cherished and passed down through the generations, usually orally.   I actually have a cookbook compiled by a Mennonite woman in that community and it is a wonderful 330 page repository of recipes, one of the best out there.  But this particular book - Country Home Cooking - is out of print.  I was able to find one used copy on sale on Amazon for $55.  If you are a cook and a collector and you have $55 to blow, I mean, I don't think it's terribly outlandish for what you get.  Recipes like this delicate white cake, golden butter cake, deer bologna, ham s

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    Old Mennonite Recipe: Delicate White Cake
     
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    Prep time
    20 mins
    Cook time
    40 mins
    Total time
    1 hour
     
    Serves: serves 6
    Ingredients
    • 2 /3 cup shortening
    • 2 cups sugar
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • 3 cups cake flour
    • 1 /4 teaspoon salt
    • 2 teaspoon baking powder
    • 1 cup milk
    • 4 egg whites
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    Instructions
    1. Cream shortening and sugar.
    2. Add vanilla.
    3. Combine dry ingredients and add alternately with milk.
    4. Beat egg whites until stiff.
    5. Stir in remaining teaspoon of baking powder.
    6. Fold into cake batter and blend well.
    7. Bake in two 9-inch or three 8-inch pans at 350 for about 30 or 40 minutes.
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