Another Bread Cake

Ingredients

• three lbs. flour
• one and one-half lbs. sugar
• one-half lb. butter
• one-half lb. lard
• three eggs
• one pint milk
• one-half pint yeast
• spice with mace
• and nutmeg
• add raisins and citron if you like

Method

1. 1

   Prepare the night before by scalding milk with half the shortening and sugar.

2. 2

   Cool, add yeast and flour.

3. 3

   When raised, mix in remaining ingredients.

4. 4

   Let rise again before baking.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from On habits and manners (1888) by M. F. Armstrong, page 82. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

three eggs, one cup sugar, one quart milk ; boil like custard. Put it in a dish, and, when cool, stir in lightly the beaten whites ; flavor with vanilla and eat cold. ANOTHER. Put one quart tapioca in one quart cold water. Set it in a warm place till it becomes clear. Pare and quarter apples ; put them in a pudding dish, with a little sugar and nutmeg ; add a little salt to the tapioca ; pour it over the apples, and bake till they are tender. Serve with sugar and cream, or milk. APPLE PUDDING. Pare and grate eight apples ; measure in a cup or bowl, and add same quantity of bread crumbs, three eggs, one and a-half pints milk, and a little sugar and cinnamon. Bake and eat with cream, or omit the cream and eat with sweet sauce. ANOTHER. Pare the apples, and stew till tender; beat up light, with a little sugar and cinnamon. Line a mold, or baking dish, with slices of buttered bread. Bake and eat with sweet sauce. BREAD PUDDING. Cut the bread into small, square pieces ; make a custard of a quart of milk, the yolks of two eggs, sugar and a little nutmeg; add half a cup of seeded raisins. Mix all in a deep dish, and bake a very light brown ; beat the whites of two eggs very light, with just enough su^ar to stiffen; and, when the pudding is cool, drop this in spoon- fuls on the top. Put it back in the oven till the white of the eggs is lightly browned. ON HABITS AND MANNERS. ANOTHER. Two cups bread crumbs ; one quart milk ; three well-beaten eggs; a little salt; one-fourth teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a little warm water. Bake and eat with sweet sauce. SPONGE PUDDING. One-half cup butter ; two cups sugar ; three eggs ; three and one-half cups flour; one cup milk; two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in cups, and eat with sweet sauce. INDIAN PUDDING. One quart milk ; one teacup molasses ; one cup suet ; one heap- ing cup Indian meal ; one egg; a little ginger, cinnamon and salt. Heat the milk, and stir into it the meal wet, with cold milk. Let it boil for two minutes. When cold, add other ingredients, and bake. HARD SAUCE. Beat together one cup fine sugar and one-half cup butter- Flavor with vanilla or nutmeg. SOFT SAUCE. One pint hot water ; one tablespoonful butter ; three full table- spoonfuls sugar. While boiling, stir in one tablespoonful cornstarch, dissolved in cold water. Flavor with vanilla, or lemon and nutmeg. PASTRY. Take equal parts of butter and lard, and chop them into the flour ; add sufficient cold water to moisten, a little salt, and roll as little as possible. For one pie the proportions are one cup flour, butter and lard the size of a small egg. Pastry which is chopped in this way is much lighter than if mixed with the hand ; but, however made, it is an unwholesome and expensive food, and should be very seldom eaten. ON HABITS AND MANNERS. 183 CRULLERS. One cup milk ; one cup sugar ; five eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately ; two teaspoonfuls baking powder ; butter size of an egg ; a little nutmeg ; flour enough to make a thick paste. Cut into shapes, and drop into boiling lard or beef fat. DOUGHNUTS. One pint milk ; three eggs ; two cups sugar ; one cup butter or lard ; one gill fresh yeast ; grated orange peel and nutmeg ; flour enough to make a stiff paste. Roll into balls, and cook like crullers. SPONGE CAKE. One-half pound sugar, one-fourth pound flour, juice and grated rind of one lemon, five eggs ; beat whites and yolks separate, as light as possible ; beat the sugar into the yolks ; then very lightly beat in the flour. BOSTON TEA-CAKE. Two cups white sugar ; two cups milk ; two eggs ; one-half cup butter ; two teaspoonfuls baking powder ; four cups flour ; spice. GINGERBREAD. Three cups flour ; one-half cup butter ; one cup molasses ; one- half cup milk ; one egg ; tablespoonful ginger ; one teaspoonful soda ; two of cream tartar. GINGERSNAPS. One large cup butter and lard ; one large cup sugar ; one large cup molasses; one-half large cup cold water; one teaspoonful soda dissolved in a little warm water; flour enough to make a stiff dough. Roll very thin, and bake quickly. 1 84 ON HABITS AND MANNERS SUGAR COOKIES. Two cups sugar; one-half cup butter; one half cup lard ; one cup milk ; one teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a little warm water ; flour to make it just thick enough to roll out. Mold as little as possible. CUP CAKE. One-half cup butter ; two cups sugar ; three eggs ; four cups flour; one cup milk ; two teaspoon fuls baking powder. Flavor with vanilla or lemon. FRUIT CAKE. One cup butter ; four cups sugar; two cups milk; yolks of six eggs, well beaten ; four teaspoonfuls baking powder ; eight cups flour ; one cup of citron and one cup of raisins, both chopped fine. Spice with nutmeg and cinnamon. BREAD CAKE. Three cups light dough ; one cup butter and lard ; three eggs ; two cups sugar ; one-half cup milk ; one-half teaspoonful soda ; nutmeg and cinnamon ; one cup raisins and citron. If not stiff enough, add a little flour. ANOTHER, Three lbs. flour; one and one-half lbs. sugar ; one-half lb. butter . one-half lb. lard; three eggs; one pint milk; one-half pint yeast. Spice with mace

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.