Bread Cake
From The century cook book, 1894
Serves 4
Presented as published in 1894. 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 century cook book (1894) by Jennie A. Hansey, page 70. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Bread Cake. Beat together one cupful The Clove. of butter with two of sugar, add two well beaten eggs, two cupfuls of stoned raisins, two-thirds tea- spoonful of soda in one of milk, and last of all stir in three cupfuls of light bread dough; work until thoroughly mixed, line a baking pan with buttered paper, put in the dough, set in a warm place to rise, and when light bake in a moderate oven for an hour or more. "Watermelon Cake. For the white part, stir to a cream two cupfuls of sugar, with one of butter; then stir in one cupful of sweet milk ; mix two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, and one of soda, with three and one-half cupfuls of flour; stir in with the other ingredients; then add the beaten whites of eight eggs. For the red part: One cupful of red sugar, and one-half cupful of butter, stirred to a cream, add one- third cupful of sweet milk, two cupfuls of flour, in which I20 Cake has been mixed one teaspoonful of cream-tartar, and a half teaspoonful of soda; then the beaten whitesof four eggs, and a cupful of small seedless raisins. Have an oval, or round baking pan, put a layer of the white dough in the bottom, then all the red in the middle, and the rest of the white dough around the sides and on top; bake in a moderate oven. You can use a baking pan with a tube if preferable. Andalusian Cake. Beat three eggs for five or six min- utes; add a cupful of fine granulated sugar, and beat two or three minutes longer; then stir in one cupful of flour, a tea- spoonful of baking powder and to suit the taste; bake at once in a quick oven. B>aisiu Cake. Beat together one cupful of butter
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