Caramel Cake

Ingredients

• five cups of sugar (sifted)
• one and one-half cups of butter
• one cup of milk
• four and a half cups of flour
• five eggs well beaten
• one small teaspoon of soda
• two small teaspoons of cream tartar
• three cups of burned sugar
• one-half cup of milk
• one teaspoon of butter
• one tablespoon of browned flour
• two tablespoons of cold water

Method

1. 1

   Mix and bake as jelly cake.

2. 2

   For filling, boil sugar, milk, butter, browned flour, and cold water for five minutes.

3. 3

   Add ground almonds, boil until custard consistency, add a pinch of soda, stir, and cool before spreading between cake layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Statesmen's dishes; and how to cook them (1890) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CARAMEL CAKE. BY MBS. W. D. BYNTTM. (Wife of Representative from Indiana.) pIBEE cups of sugar (sifted), one and one-half cups of butter, one cup of milk, four and a half cups of flour, five eggs well beaten, one small teaspoon of soda, two small teaspoons of cream tartar ; mix and bake as jelly cake. For the filling, take three cups of burned sugar, one-half cup of milk, one teaspoon of butter, one tablespoon of browned flour, two tablespoons of cold water

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