Coffee Cake

Ingredients

• two and a half cups of milk
• one egg
• four tablespoonfuls of sugar
• two cups of flour

Method

1. 1

   Boil the milk, egg, sugar, and flour until thickened.

2. 2

   Flavor with strong coffee and place between two cooled sponge cakes, frosting the top.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 356. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COFFEE CAKE. Get ready some flour, with a heaping teaspoonful of soda stirred in ; then one cup of cold coffee, one cup molasses, one of sugar, one of sour milk, one of shortening (meat-frying preferred), one tablespoonful of ground coffee, one of ground spices ; stir into the flour to a good stiff batter, add one cup English currants, washed, rubbed dry, and a little flour rubbed over them that they may not cause the cake to settle ; stir all together well and bake slowly. WHITE CAKE. One pound of flour, one pound of sugar, three-quarters of a pound of butter, fifteen eggs, two teaspoonfuls of good yeast powder. First 416 CAKE. beat half your eggs to a stiff froth, add the sugar, cream the butter well and mix in your flour ; put all together, beat well and add the rest of the eggs beaten stiff, the last thing. DELICATE CAKE. One cup of sugar, half a cup of butter, half a cup of sweet milk, one and a half of flour, one. teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a tea- spoonful of soda, four eggs (the whites only). COFFEE CAKE. Bake two sponge cakes and let them cool. Take two and a half cups of milk, one egg, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, two cups of flour

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