COFFEE CAKE
From Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .., 1902
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This recipe was extracted from Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .. (1902) by Marion Harland, page 83. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
COFFEE CAKE. Two cups brown sugar, one of butter, one of i one of strong coffee as prepared for the table, four eggs, one teaspoon ealeratus, two of cinnamon, two of cloves, one of grated nutmeg, pound raisins, one of currants, four eups Sour. SOFT GINGERBREAD. Six cupfuls of flour, three of molasses, one of cream, one of lard or butter, two eggs, one teaspoonful of aaleratUB, and two of ginger. This is excellent SPICE CAKE. One and one-h&lf cups of sugar, half cap butter, half of sour milk, two caps of raisins chopped, three eggs, half a nutmeg, one teaspoon cinnamon, one of cloves, one saler- atus; mix rather stiff; bake in loaf tins in moderate oven. SWEET STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE. Three eggs, one cupful sugar, two of flour, one tableapoon- ful of butter, a teaapoonful, heaped, of baking powder. Beat the butter and sugar together, and add the eggs well- beaten. Stir in the flour and baking powder well sifted to- gether. Bake in deep tin plates. This quantity will fill four plates. With three pints of strawberries mix a cupful of sugar. Spread the fruit between the layers of cake. The tog layer of strawberries may be covered with a meringue made with the white of an egg and a tablespoon- ful of nowdered sugar. GINGER NUTS. One and three-quarter pounds of syrup, one pound of moist sugar, one pound of butter, two and three-quarter Mo-thee's Cook Boos. 197 pounds of flour, one and a half ounces of ground ginger, one and a half ounces of allspice, one and a half ounces of coriander seed, sal volatile size of a bean, a little Cayenne, flour enough to roll out,, bat not thin, cat with a wineglass or roll between your hands into small balls, and pinch. RIBBON CAKE. Two cupfuls of sugar, one of butter, one of milk
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