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A Good Cup-cake
From The economical cook book, 1905
Serves 12
You may add fruit, if you choose.
Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
last a tea- spoonful of saleratus or soda dissolved in a teaspoonful of hot water. Bake in shallow pans or in a large cake. By adding the yolks of the eggs to this recipe you have a fine cream-cake. * White Almond-cake. Two cups of sugar, one of cream, whites of four eggs, a tea- spoon of cream of tartar and half an one of soda, flour as stiff as pound-cake, a teaspoonful of extract of almond. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the whites of the eggs, then the ex- tract, flour, and last the cream of tartar beaten well in dry, and the soda dissolved in a very little hot water. Bake all in one or in square tins. Black Cake. Three cups of molasses, one of butter, one of cream, four eggBi six cups of flour, a tablespoonful of ginger, and a teaspoonM of soda. Beat all well together, soda and cream last. Bake in Turk's head. CAKE. 238 * Delicate Cake. One oup of butter, three of sugar, one of cream, and four of flour, the whites of ten eggs beaten to a stiff froth ; flavor with the grated peel of half a lemon, two teaspoonsful of cieam of tartar and one of soda. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the lemon, the whites of the eggs, then the flour with the cream of tartar sifted through it, and last the cream with the soda dissolved in it. Bake in shallow tins or all in one like pound-cake. Hyde Park Cake. Three eggs beaten separately, two cups of sugar, one of sweet milk, one of butter, a teaspoonM of soda, and two of cream of tartar sifted in three cups of flour. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the yolks of the eggs, the peel of a lemon grated, then the flour and whites of the eggs alternately, then the milk with the soda in it. Bake in square tins. * West Philadelphia Cake. One cup of butter, one and a half of sugar, three cups of flour, three eggs beaten separately, one cup of cream, two tea spoons of cream of tartar, one of soda. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, flavor with lemon-peel, a little grated nutmeg, and a pinch of cinnamon; add the eggs, then the cream, then the flour with the cream of tartar in it, and last the soda dis- solved in a very little hot water. Bake in square pans. A Good Cup-cake. Three cups of sugar, one of butter stirred to a cream with the sugar, five eggs beaten light and added, a cup of sour cream, five cups of flour, a grated nutmeg
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