Almond Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups flour
• li cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• i cup milk
• 1 cup blanched almonds
• 3 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Blanch the almonds, split them lengthwise, dry them, and mix with the cake last.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 283. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ALMOND CAKE, i cup butter. 2 cups flour. li cups sugar. 2 teaspoons baking powder. i cup milk. 1 cup blanched almonds. 3 eggs. Blanch the almonds, split them lengthwise, dry them, and mix with the cake last. . LOAF CAKES 373 APPLE CAKE. h cup butter and 2 eggs, i cup lard — melt these 4 teaspoons baking powder, together. Flour enough to make i cup sugar. rather soft. 2i cups milk. Pare and slice 7 or 8 apples and set them down into the top of the dough, close together, when it is in the pan. Sprinkle A cup sugar and some cinnamon on top of all. Bake slowly, and when the apples are done the cake is done. This makes a dripping pan full. APPLE CAKE No. 2. i cup butter. 2 cups preserved apples. 1 cup brown sugar. 2 teaspoons cinnamon. 1 cup molasses. 1 nutmeg. 1 cup boiling water. 1 teaspoon soda. After these are well mixed together add 2 well= beaten eggs and 4 cups flour. To preserve the apples, take 1 quart of chopped apples and stew slowly in li cups molasses 4 or 5 hours, or until reduced to 1 pint. Bake in a moderate oven. AVill keep several weeks. DKIED APPLE CAKE. 1 cup butter

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