Clove Cake

Name: Clove Cake
Yield: 7 servings
Ingredients: four and one-half coffee cups of sifted flour; three cups sugar; one and one-half cups butter; one teacup cream or milk; one teaspoon saleratus; four eggs; one tablespoon cloves; one tablespoon cinnamon; one tablespoon nutmeg; one pound fruit and citron

From The new home cook book, 1896

Serves 7

Presented as published in 1896. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 134. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CLOVE CAKE. Mrs. H. P. Merriman. Four and one-half coflee cups of sifted flour* three cups sugar, one and one-half cups butter, one teacup cream or milk, one teaspoon saleratus, four eggs, one tablespoon cloves, one tablespoon cinnamon, one tablespoon nutmeg, one pound fruit and citron

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