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Angel Food Cake (Sarah Knopp)
A dessert cake recipe from Sarah Knopp (Choteau).
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Cook time60 to 70 min
Servings1 tube cake
Serving size1 slice
Effortweeknight
Oven275-325°F
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Ingredients
Dry
- 1/2 tsp. salt (~3 g)
- 1 cup flour (~125 g)
- 1 cup granulated sugar (~200 g)
- 1 cup powdered sugar (~120 g)
Wet
- 1 1/2 cups egg whites (~360 g)
- 1 tsp. cream of tartar (~5 g)
- 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar (~2.5 g)
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Directions
- 1
Whip the egg whites and salt until frothy.
- 2
Add one tsp. cream of tartar.
- 3
Whip stiff but not dry. Sift the flour, sugars and (1/2 tsp.) cream of tartar.
- 4
Sift these ingredients six times. Add to the beaten egg whites, folding gently.
- 5
Bake in an ungreased angel cake pan at 275 degrees for 30 minutes, then increase the temperature to 325 degrees and bake another 30–40 minutes.
- 6
Invert the pan until the cake is cooled.
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Transcription notes
- Printed heritage cookbook page, clean type, high confidence. Note the two-stage bake temperature. Ovens assumed °F. ---
Source details
- Attribution
- Sarah Knopp (Choteau)
- Origin
- Choteau, Montana, 1895
- Source type
- printed cookbook
- Source file
- scanned_recipes/montana_oldest_receipes/mont_oldest_recipes_jim_kitchen_cabinet.pdf
- Source page
- 49 of 218
- Transcribed
- 2026-07-27
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