Clay Cake

Ingredients

• One cup butter
• two and one-half cups sugar
• one cup sweet milk
• four cups flour
• the yolks of five eggs
• the whites of seven
• two spoons cream tartar
• one spoon soda
• one spoon extract of lemon

Method

1. 1

   Stir the butter and sugar till it looks like cream; beat the yolks separately and well, the whites to a stiff froth, adding the whites and flour last, and beat all very thoroughly.

2. 2

   This will make two cakes.

3. 3

   If you lack time, and wish variety, by changing the flavoring and adding fruit to one, you will have two cakes entirely unlike, and very good.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 136. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CLAY CAKE. Mrs. Ada Sturtevant. One cup butter, two and one-half cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, four cups flour, the yolks of five eggs and the whites of seven, two spoons cream tartar, one spoon soda, one spoon extract of lemon

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