Citron Cake

Ingredients

• One and a-half cups of sugar
• three-fourths cup butter
• one teacup citron, sliced very fine
• two eggs beaten separate
• two teaspoons baking powder
• one teaspoon of vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Stir butter and sugar to a cream, then add other ingredients.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CITRON CAKE. One pound of butter beaten to a cream, one pound flour, one pound white sugar, eight well beaten eggs, one- half pound almonds blanched and chopped fine, one quar- ter pound citron ; beat well and bake in greased tins lined with paper. CUSTARD CAKE. One cup sugar, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour, one ege, two teaspoons baking powder, two tablespoons but- ter. Bake in three layers. THE FILLING: Oneegg, one-half pint milk, one teaspoonful corn-starch, one tablespoonful flour, two tablespoonfuls sugar; scald the milk, beat the sugar, flour and corn-starch together, add the milk ;‘ boil until thick. Flavor when cold and_ spread between the layers. VANITY CAKE. Four eggs, two cups flour, rolled thin as a‘wafer; cutin patterns, and fry in hot lard. SPONGE GINGERBREAD. One cup sour milk, one cup molasses, one-half cup but- ter, two eggs, one tablespoonful ginger, one spoonful soda. - Bh a 8 vos Mix the butter, molasses and ginger together, then add — : milk, eggs, and flour enough to make it as thick asa pound cake. SUGAR CAKES. ' Three cups sugar, two cups butter, three eggs well beaten, one teaspoon soda, enough flour to roll. DORA’S DOUGHNUTS. One egg, one cup rich milk, one cup sugar, flour enough to roll out, three teaspoons baking powder. COCOANUT JUMBLES. “ Two cups sugar, one cup butter, twe cups cocoanut, two eggs, small teaspoon soda mixed wh flour enough to make a stiff batter. Drop heaping teaspoons on buttered paper in pans. BIRDIE’S FAVORITE DOUGHNUTS. One pint sour milk, one cup sugar, two eggs, one tea- spoon soda, half cup lard, nutmeg to flavor; mix to a moderately stiff dough, roll up half inch in thickness, cut in rings or twists, drop into boiling lard, and fry toa light brown. WATER MELON CAKE. WHITE PART. Two cups white sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet — milk, three and a-half cups of flour, whites of eight eggs, _ CAKES. - a 719T 192 DORA’S COOK BOOK. two teaspoons cream of tartar, one teaspoon soda dis- solved in warm water. RED PART, One cup red sugar, half cup butter, one-third cup sweet milk, two cups flour, whites of four eggs, one teaspoon cream of tartar, half teaspoon soda, one teacup raisins. Be careful to keep the red part around the tube of the pan and the white around the edge. It requires two per- sons to fill the pan. LILY OF THE VALLEY CAKE, One cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three cups of flour, whites of five eggs, two teaspoons baking powder. CITRON CAKE, One and a-half cups of sugar, three-fourths cup butter, one teacup citron, sliced very fine, two eggs beaten separate ; stir butter and sugar toa cream; two teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon of vanilla

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