Brown Sugar Cake

Ingredients

• one and one-half cups sugar
• one-half cup butter
• two eggs
• one cup water
• three tablespoons caramelized sugar
• two and one-half cups flour
• two teaspoons baking powder
• one teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolk.

2. 2

   Dissolve caramelized sugar in hot water, add cold water.

3. 3

   Alternate adding flour and water.

4. 4

   Add baking powder and beaten egg whites last.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Natchez recipes (1900), page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two teaspoons baking powder. Add alternately ^vith one half cup milk to the sugar mixture. Add one teaspoon vanilla extract. Pour in layer pans and bake at 375 de- grees for twenty minutes. For filling: Combine one-fourth cup sugar, one tablespoon cornstarch, one cup pineapple ( crushed ) , one egg and one-fourth teaspoon salt. Cook over hot water fifteen minutes or until thick. When both cake and filling are cool spread on one layer of the cake one half of the filling. Cover with bananas sliced, top the second cake, again cover the cake with filling and sliced bananas and finally sprinkle over the bananas an entire can of moist cocoanut. Mrs. Don F. AUen, Church Hill, Miss. 10 -CAKES UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE One-half cup butter, one cup sugar, creamed. Add two well beaten eggs. Add alternately two cups flour, one-half cup milk and one-half (scant) cup pineapple juice. Add two teaspoons baking powder. Pour mixture into skillet which has been prepared with topping. CAKE TOPPING: Melt one-half stick butter. Add one-half package light brown sugar. Spread over the bottom of skillet and garnish with pineapple, or other desired fruit, and pecans. CRUMB CAKE Two cuj^.o brown sugar, two cups flour, one-half cup butter, two eggs, one cup sour milk, oi ' teaspoon soda, one teaspoon vanilla, one-fourth teaspoon cinnamon, one-foui^ '‘aspoon nutmeg, and one cup chopped nuts. Mix sugar, butter and flour. Set a, three-fourths cup of this mixture. Add remaining mixture, egg yolks, sour milk, soda, flavoring and spices, then fold in egg whites well beaten. Pour into greased pan and sprink’'' top with remaining cnimbs. Bake in moderate oven -^5 ’uinutes to an hour. BROWN SUGAR One and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup butter, two eggs, one cup water, three tablespoons caramelized sugar, (six tablespoons before caramel- ized) Uvo and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking power, one teaspoon vanilla. Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolk. Dissolve caramelized sugar, over heat, in a little hot water. Add rest of water cold. Add alternateh' flour and water. Add baking powder and last the egg whites which ha\^e been beaten stiff, but not dry. ICING: One and one-half cups sugar, three tablespoons burnt sugar, one-half cup water, two egg whites. Cook sugar and water to soft ball stage. Add caramelized sugar and cook until syrup hairs. Pour over well beaten egg whites and beat until consistency to spread. CHOCOLATE PORCUPINE Four eggs, seven-eights cup sugar, seven-eights cup flour, one teaspoon baking powder, one-fourth teaspoon salt, one-half teaspoon vanilla. Beat eggs until h'ght; add sugar gradually, continuing to beat until thick and smooth. Sift flour once, measure and sift with baking powder and salt. Fold into egg mixture. Add vanilla. Turn into a shallow pan measuring about ten by six- teen inches, lined with greased paper. Bake in hot oven— 400°, 12 to 15 min- utes. Remove from oven and turn out onto a cloth sprinkled with confection- ers sugar. Quickly trim off crusty edge witli sharp knife. Roll like jelly roll and let cool slightly wrapped in cloth. Unroll and spread with chocolate fill- 11 -CAKES- ing; roll again and keep wrapped until cool and firm. Spread with any soft chocolate frosting and '‘prick” with blanched, shredded almonds. Makes eight to ten generous slices. CHOCOLATE FILLING; Melt three squares (three ounces) unsweet- ened chocolate over hot water. Add one and one-third cups sweetened con- densed milk. Stir until thick. Cool slightly before spreading. This cake can be filled with any desired filling. DEVILS FOOD CUP CAKES Two and one-half cups flour

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