Buttermilk Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup raisins
• 2 cups flour
• 1/4 cup butter
• spices
• 1/2 teaspoonful cloves
• 1 teaspoonful cinnamon
• 1 teaspoonful ginger

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

2. 2

   Don't use sour milk.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Machias Cook Book (1899) by [name missing], page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

)4 cup butter, cream this together, then put in 2 J^ cups flour ; then add ^ cup sweet milk with i teaspoonful cream tartar, and y^ teaspoonful soda put in the milk, beat this well and last put in ^ pound walnuts, cut up with a knife. Mrs. Haiti e Gardner. ANNA'S BLUEBERRY CAKE. }^ cup butter, i cup sugar, 2 eggs, i cup milk, i teaspoonful soda, 2 teaspoonfuls cream tartar, ly^ cups flour, i pint blueberries, DRIED APPLE CAKE. 3 cups of dried or evaporated apples, soak over night in cold water, chop very fine and put over the fire with 3 cups of syrup, or molasses, and stew until soft, but not pulpy. When cold mix with them 3j^ cups of flour, i cup butter, 3 eggs, i cup sugar, i tea- spoon soda, 2 teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, salt and spice ; raisins and currants may be added if desired. Addie Gray, Wesley, Me. NICE ONE EGG CAKE. I cup sugar (scant), Yi cup shortening, ^3 cup water, i egg, 2 teaspoonfuls cream tartar, i of soda, flour and flavor. SCRIPTURE CAKE. 1 cup of butter, Judges, v. 25 ; 2 cups of Sligar, J-remiah, \'i, 20; 3^ cups of sifted fljur, i Kings, iv. 22 ; 2 cups of raisins, i Samuel, xxx. 12 ; 2 cups of figs, i Samuel, xxx. 12 ; 1 up »f • 22 MACHIAS CQOK BOOK. mends, Genesis, Ixiii. 1 1 ; i cup of water, Genesis, xxiv. 20 ; 6 eggs, Isaiah, X. 14 ; a little salt, Leviticus, ii. 13; a large iron spoonful of honey, Exodus, xvi. 31 ; sweet spices to taste, 1 Kings, X. 2 ; one teaspoon of cream of tartar. Matt., xiii. 33 ; j4 teaspoon of soda. Matt , xiii. 33. DELICIOUS CAKE. 2 cups of sugar, i cup of butter, i cup of milk, 3 cups of flour, 3 eggs, I teaspoon of cream of tartar, J^ teaspoon of soda, salt. CHEAP ANGEL CAKE. I cup sugar, ^ cup butter, beat to a cream. Dissolve i heap- ing teaspoonful of cream of tartar and ^ teaspoonful soda in ^ cup sweet milk, stir into the butter and sugar ; to i cup of flour add Ys cup corn starch, beat thoroughly, then add the whites of 4 6ggS) well beaten. ALMOND CAKE. 3 eggs (whites), 2 cups flour, i cup sugar, yi cup butter, J^ cup milk, I teaspoonful cream tartar, ^ teaspoonful soda. Almond. TEA CAKE. 4 eggs, 3 cups sugar, i cup butter (scant), i cup milk, 4 cups flour, a bit of soda not larger than a bean. Mrs. L. M. Bailey. BUTTERMILK CAKE. I cup buttermilk, i cup sugar, i cup raisins, 2 cups flour, y^ cup butter, spices, yi teaspoonful cloves, i teaspoonful cinnamon, i teaspoonful ginger. Don't use sour milk. ^ Mrs. I. W. Leighton. PUFF CAKE. 3 *ggs, 2 cups sugar, J^ cup butter, i cup milk, i teaspoonful soda, 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, 3 cups flour. Flavor. Mrs. E. S. Robinson. CAKE. 23 BROWN SUGAR CAKE. I egg, J4 cup brown sugar, i cup milk, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoon- fuls cream tartar, i teaspoontul soda, 2 teaspoonfuls butter. SOUR CREAM CAKE. I cup sugar, i cup sour cream, ^ cup milk, ^ cup butter, i teaspoonful soda, nutmeg, 2^ cups flour. BROWNIE'S FOOD. First Part : i y^ cup brown sugar, J^ cup sweet milk, ^ cup grated chocolate ; boil and set away to cool. Second Part: ^ cup butter (scant), i cup brown sugar, ^ cup milk, 2 cups flour, i teaspoontul soda in flour, add the first part and i teaspoonful vanilla. Bake in layers. CREAM frosting FOR ABOVE. )4 cup good, sweet cream, i pound confectioners' sugar. Marie Kelly, Whitewater, Wis. CARAMEL CAKE. 1 cup sugar

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