Angel Cake & Funnel Cake (1889, 1899)

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   "Angel cake" is from a "St. Louis" baker?  Didn't the inventor die in
Plainfield, New Jersey?
   John Mariani and DARE have 1950 for "funnel cake."
   This first newspaper is a recent addition to ancestry.com...O.T.: Watch
out for those discharged employees.


   22 March 1889, NEW OXFORD ITEM (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), pg. 3, col. 5:
      _Angel Cake._
   This popular cake was invented by a St. Louis baker, who kept the formula
a secret a long time.  A discharged employe finally made it known.  To four
ounces of sifted flour add one teaspoonful of cream of tartar; rub these through
the sieve four or five times.  Beat the whites of a dozen eggs until very
stiff; add to them gradually three-quarters of a pound of granulated sugar, and
beat thoroughly while so doing; flavor with a teaspoonful of vanilla extract;
add the flour to the egg foam quickly and lightly.  Line the funnel cake pan
with ungreased paper, pour in the mixture and bake fifty minutes.  When done
loosen the edges and remove from the pan at once.--_New York Sun_.


   15 August 1899, ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, pg. 4, col. 5:
      _Editor Gets Rich Suddenly._
   J. J. Streeter, the editor and publisher of The Vineland Independent, New
Jersey, a poor man, has been made wealthy by the will of Mrs. Caroline F.
Dexter, which was probated here today.  By the terms of the will all of a large
fortune, with the exception of $1,400, is left to Mr. Streeter.  The $1,400 goes
to three nephews.  Mrs. Dexter was the widow of Lynus W. Dexter, the
originator of angel cake.  The fortune amounts to several hundred thousand dollars.
Mr. Streeter is a state populist organizer and his paper is the official organ
of the populists in New Jersey.  Mr. Streeter has been overwhelmed with
congratulations, and his editorial rooms have been overrun today by men and women
friends.