American Southern

Wafer Cake

Name: Wafer Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients: 0.75 lb sugar; 0.25 lb butter; 8 each eggs; 0.5 lb flour

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 15. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

20 minPrep Time

35 minCook Time

12Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

3/4 lb sugar
1/4 lb butter
8 each eggs
1/2 lb flour

Instructions

1
Cream the butter
2
Beat the yelks, butter, and sugar together until light
3
Beat the whites to a stiff froth
4
Add all together
5

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