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Alpha Cake

Name: Alpha Cake
Yield: 10 servings
Ingredients: a cup of butter; two and a half cups of sugar; one cup sweet milk; yolks of five eggs; half cake of Bakers Chocolate; two teaspoons baking powder; two heaping cups flour; the beaten whites of the eggs; flavor with vanilla; a pinch of cinnamon

From The new practical housekeeping, 1890

Serves 10

Some add a pinch of cinnamon.

Presented as published in 1890. 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 new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Alpha Cake. — Cream together a cup of butter and two and a half cups sugar ; add one cup sweet milk, yolks of five eggs, half cake 01 Bakers Chocolate, melted by placing in a dish over Doiling water, two teaspoons baking powder sifted with two heaping cups dour, the beaten whites of the eggs and flavor with vanilla ; bake m layers and put together with icing. Some add a pinch of cinnamon

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