Albany Cake

Ingredients

• One and one-half pounds flour
• one-half pound butter
• one pound sugar
• two eggs
• one nutmeg
• one-half teaspoonful saleratus or pearlash
• one-half tea cup of cream
• If you like them add one-half pound of currants.

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter and sugar together, beat in eggs, add grated nutmeg, then alternately add cream and flour, saving enough flour to roll out the cakes.

2. 2

   Cut with a cake cutter and bake in a quick oven until light brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Germantown D. A. R. cook book (1907) by Daughters of the American Revolution. Pennsylvania. Germantown chapter, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ALBANY CAKE (1 50 years old) and still used in the family Great Grandmother, Ridgzvay, N. J. One and one-half pounds flour, one-half pound butter, one pound sugar, two eggs, one nutmeg, one- half teaspoonful saleratus or pearlash, dissolved in one-half tea cup of cream. If you like them add one-half pound of currants.

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