How To Make Loaf Cakes. Part 4
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This section is from the book "Mrs. Owens' Cook Book", by Frances E. Owens. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Owens' Cook Book.
How To Make Loaf Cakes. Part 4
Spice Cake
1 cup butter.
2 cups sugar.
1 cup sweet milk. 4 1/2 cups flour.
4 eggs.
2 teaspoons cream of tartar. 1 teaspoon each soda, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, nutmeg and mace.
Old-Fashioned Pound Cake
Mrs. Augustine Owens, Tollesboro, Ky.
10 eggs.
1 pound flour (about 3 cups). 1 pound sugar (about 3 cups). 1 pound butter (about 1 1/2 cups).
Wash the salt out of the butter, cream it with the sugar, *30 add the well beaten yolks, then the sifted flour, alternately with the stiffly-beaten whites. Beat with the hand very thoroughly. Use flavoring, if any is desired.
Soda Pound Cake
Mrs. C. S. Johnston, Harford, Pennsylvania.
1 cup each butter and sugar.
2 cups flour.
4 eggs; small teaspoon soda; flavoring. Rich and moist; will keep a long time.
White Pound Cake
1 cup fine white sugar. 1/2 cup butter.
Beat to a cream and add whites of 2 eggs. Then beat 10 minutes. Add 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, sifted with 1 1/2 cups flour. 1/2 teaspoon soda. 1/2 cup sweet milk. 1 teaspoon lemon.
Beat all together 15 minutes. Bake 1 hour in moderate oven, in a round basin.
Jenny Lind Cake
Miss Sarah Hall, Wallingford, Conn.
1 1/2 cups butter.
3 cups sugar. 1 cup milk.
4 cups flour.
5 eggs.
1/2 teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon cream of tartar.
Buckeye Cake
Mrs. C. S. Johnston.
3 eggs.
1 1/2 cups sugar. 1/2 cup butter. 1/2 cup milk.
2 cups flour.
1/2 teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon cream of tartar.
Watermelon Cake
White Part
2 cups pulverized sugar. 2/3 cup butter.
2/3 cup sweet milk.
3 cups flour. Whites of 5 eggs.
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder.
Red Part
1/3 cup butter. 1 cup red sugar sand. 1/3 cup milk.
2 cups flour.
5 yolks of eggs.
1/2 pound raisins - whole.
1 tablespoon baking powder.
Put the red batter in the center of the pan, and the white around the outside.
Marble Cake
Dark Part
1 cup butter.
2 cups white sugar.
1 cup sweet milk.
3 cups flour. Whites of 7 eggs.
2 teaspoons cream of tartar. 1 teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon lemon.
Dark Part
1 cup butter.
2 cups brown sugar. 1 cup molasses.
1/2 cup sour cream.
5 cups flour.
Yolks of 7 eggs. Pinch of pepper.
2 tablespoons cinnamon.
1 tablespoon each nutmeg, cloves, and allspice.
1 teaspoon each vanilla and soda.
Butter the cake-tin and put in alternate spoonsful of the light and dark batter.
Gold Cake
Mrs. E. B. B.
1/2 cup butter.
1 1/2 cups sugar.
2 1/2 cups flour.
1/2 cup milk.
1/2 teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon cream of tartar.
Yolks 6 eggs.
1 teaspoon vanilla.
Frost with yellow frosting.
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