A Pound Cake

Name: A Pound Cake
Ingredients: One pound water; one pound milk; one pound flour; one pound of lard; one pound soda; one pound Royal Baking Powder; one pound salt; one pound butter; one pound vanilla flavoring

From Popular cook book, 1899

There will likely be more cake than the neighbors can consume.

Presented as published in 1899. 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 Popular cook book (1899) by Seeman Printery, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

A POUND: CAKE. One pound water, one pound milk, one pound flour, well sifted, one pound of lard well mixed in with clean hands; one pound soda, one pound Royal Baking Pow- der, one pound salt, one pound butter, one pound vanilla flavoring

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