Belvidere Cakes

Name: Belvidere Cakes
Ingredients: One quart flour; four eggs; one heaping tablespoonful of butter; one of lard; a teaspoonful salt; three quarters of a pint of cold milk

From Six little cooks, 1910

Cakes must be broken, not cut, at the table.

Presented as published in 1910. 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 Six little cooks (1910) by Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland, page 70. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BELVTDERE CAKES. One quart flour, four eggs, one heaping tablespoonful of butter and one of lard, a teaspoon ful salt. Mix the shortening and salt through the flour with the hand ; beat the eggs light, and add to them three quarters of a pint of cold milk

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