Coffee Cake

Ingredients

• one cup butter
• one of sugar
• one of molasses
• one of strong coffee
• five of flour
• one pound of raisins
• one teaspoon of soda
• one of cinnamon
• one of allspice
• one-half a nutmeg
• three eggs

Method

1. 1

   Sift the soda in molasses and mix all ingredients.

2. 2

   Bake until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 133. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one teaspoon of soda, two of cream tartar, or three of baking powder ; mix flour, sugar and cream tartar together ; dissolve the soda in one cup good cream and add with the beaten eggs to the mixture. Flavor with lemon or vanilla. Bake twenty minutes. Is made quickly and very nice. COEN STARCH CAKE. Mrs. Dickinson. One cup of butter, two cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, two-thirds cup corn starch and fill it up with flour, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, whites of seven eggs. COEN STAECH CAKE. Lucy D. Fake. One cup white sugar and one-half cup butter beaten together, one-half cup starch, the whites of three eggs beaten to a stifl" froth, one cup milk, one cup flour, one teaspoon cream tartar, one-half of soda. Flavor with lemon. LADY CAKE. Mrs. Ewing. One pound sugar, one-half pound butter, one pound of VALUABLE RECIPES. 339 flour, whites of sixteen eggs, one and one-half teaspoons soda, one and one-half teaspoons cream tartar. Rub but- ter and sugar together, then stir the whites of eggs into it. Sift the flour three times with cream tartar and soda in it, and add lastly. LADY CAKE. One cup of boiled milk, one- half cup butter, two cups powdered sugar, three cups flour, one even teaspoon cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda, whites of two eggs ; flavor with bitter almond. LEMON CAKE. Lake Forest, 111. Three cups of sugar, one cup butter, one cup milk, five eggs, four cups flour ; stir the butter and sugar to a cream, beat the eggs separately, the whites to a stiff froth, and dissolve a little soda in the milk. Mix all together; sift the flour and put in by degrees, and add the juice and grated rind of a fresh lemon. This cake is delicious. LEMO^^ CAKE. Mrs. H. B. Hurd. Five cups flour, one cup butter, three cups sugar, one cup cream, five eggs, one teaspoon saleratus and the peel and juice of two lemons. SPICE CAKE. Mrs. A. T. Hall Two cups of sugar, two cups butter, six cups flour, one 340 THE HOME COOK BOOK. cup molasses, one cup milk, six eggs, one glass brandy, two teaspoons cream tartar, one teaspoon soda, two tea- spoons cloves, one nutmeg, two pounds raisins. SPICE CAKE. Mrs. J. C. Mooar. One and one-half cups sugar, two-thirds cup butter, one cup raisins, two-thirds cup sweet milk, three cups flour, two eggs, one teaspoon cream tartar, one-half tea- spoon soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves to suit taste. CURRANT CAKE. Fanny L., Evanston. One and one-half pounds flour, one pound sugar, three- fourths pound butter, seven eggs, one gill milk, one-half teaspoon saleratus, one pound currants. POOR MAN'S CAKE. Fanny L. Two cups raised dough, one egg, one-half cup molasses, one cup sugar, butter size of an egg, one teaspoon soda; one cup raisins, flour to stiffen. 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. VALUABLE EECIPES. 341 COFFEE CAKE. Mrs. E. S. Chesebrough. One cup butter, one of sugar, one of molasses, one of strong coffee, five of flour, one pound of raisins, one tea- spoon of soda, one of cinnamon, one of allspice, one- half a nutmeg, three eggs

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