This section is from the book "Capital City Recipes", by First Presbyterian Church (Raleigh, N.C.). Woman's Auxiliary. Also available from Amazon: Capital City Cook Book, A Collection Of Practical Tested Receipts By Many Of The Best Housekeepers.
Cream butter and sugar together; beat whites and yolks of eggs separately. If milk is used, add it to the butter and sugar, then the eggs; flour always last; baking powder is always sifted with the flour; spices are mixed with the flour or sugar. In fruit cake take part of the flour to coyer the fruit.
Butter - Pounds ............................................1
Flour - Pounds ..............................................1
Sugar - Pounds, 1; ounces............................1
Eggs (leaving out 8 yolks) ........................16
Flavor to taste.
Beat the eggs separately, adding whites and flavoring last. MRS. W. L. LITTLE.
Pound cake batter with 2 pounds raisins and 1 tablespoonful of mixed spices added. MRS. R. T. GRAY..
Sugar - Cupfuls ............................................1 1/2
Butter - Cupfuls ............................................1
Flour - Cupfuls .......................................3
Sour Milk - Cupfuls ......................................1
Eggs (yolks) ..................................................4
Eggs (whole) ................................................1
Soda - Teaspoonfuls ......................................1
Cinnamon - Teaspoonfuls ......................3
Cloves - Teaspoonfuls ..................................2
Allspice - Teaspoonfuls ................................1
Nutmeg ..........................................................1/2
Bake in layers; make an icing of 4 cupfuls of sugar and 2 cupfuls of boiling water; boil until very ropy and almost candy; beat the 4 whites of eggs and pour the boiling candy over it, beating all the time. Flavor with lemon, and when cool enough spread.
Mrs. T. K. Bruner
Flour - Cupfuls ................................................4
Eggs ................................................................4
Molasses - Cupfuls ..........................................1
Brown Sugar - Cupfuls ..................................1
Butter - Cupfuls ..............................................2
Milk - Cupful ..................................................1
Soda - Teaspoonfuls ........................................1
Ginger - Tablespoonfuls ................................1
Grated Rind of 1 Lemon.
Beat the eggs separately; put the butter, molasses and sugar in a bowl and warm slightly. Dissolve the soda in milk. MRS. W. H. CROW.
Eggs (whites) ................................................12
Butter - Cupfuls ............................................1
Sugar - Cupfuls ............................................3
Flour - Cupfuls ..............................................3 1/2
Corn Starch - Small cupfuls ........................1
Sweet Milk - Cupfuls ....................................1
Baking Powder - Heaping Teaspoonfuls. . . 2
Dissolve the corn starch in one-half of the milk. Flavor with lemon or pine-apple.
MRS. JAMES WILLIAMSON (Graham).
 
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