Coffee Cake
From Delicate dishes, 1896
Recipe by M. D. E.
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 Delicate dishes (1896), page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
COFFEE CAKE. Cream i cup of butter and i of sugar, add i of mo- lasses, I of strong coffee, 2 of raisins, ^^ of milk, i tea- spoonful of soda, I quart of flour. Spices. M. D. E. SILVER CAKE. Cream i cup of butter with i of powdered sugar, add 3 cups of flour, whites of 8 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls of Cameo baking powder, 24 almonds, blanched and chop- ped. Flavor with extract of bitter almonds. GOLD CAKE. Cream i cup of butter with 2 of sugar, add 4 cups of flour, I of milk, yolks of 8 eggs, i teaspoonful of Cameo baking powder, nutmeg and citron. Miss Mary E. D. ORANGE CAKE. Beat to a cream i/^ cup of butter with 2 of sugar, ^ cup of milk, 2^ of flour, 5 eggs, beaten separately. Bake in layers. Take the white of one of the eggs and beat to a stiff froth, beat in powdered sugar and the juice and grated rind of i orange, until thick enough to spread between the layers. Miss Nellie H. HICKORY NUT CAKE. Cream together ^ cup of butter with i ^ of sugar. CAKE. 141 3/1 cup of milk, 2 of flour, 2 teaspoonfuls of Cameo bak- ing powder, whites of 4 eggs, i cup of hickory nut meats. Miss Susan J. F. CITRON CAKE. Cream 2 cups of butter with 3 of sugar, add i cup milk, 5 of flour, 6 eggs, i teaspoonful of soda
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