Coffee Cake (No. 1)

Ingredients

• Two cupfuls brown sugar
• one cupful butter
• one cupful molasses
• one cupful strong coffee, as prepared for the table
• four eggs
• one teaspoonful saleratus
• two teaspoonfuls cinnamon
• two teapoonfuls cloves
• one teaspoonful of grated nutmeg
• one pound of raisins
• one pound of currants
• four cupfuls of flour

Method

1. 1

   Combine all ingredients and bake until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 98. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cupful molasses. 164 CAKE. WEDDING CAKE — Very fine. Four pounds of flour, four pounds of sugar, three pounds of butter, forty eggs, five pounds of stoned raisins, three pounds currants, one pound of citron, chopped, one ounce of mace, half ounce of nutmeg, six teaspoonfuls of rose water, one tablespoon- ful of oil of lemon, four teaspoonfuls of baking-powder or two ounces of ammonia, well dissolved. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, whisk the whites and yolks of eggs separately, then mix and add the flour, gradually; last, the spices, fruit and ammonia. Beat well and bake six hours. FROSTING FOR WEDDING CAKE. Three and one-half pounds double refined sugar, whites of twelve eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, then add the sugar, add a little potato starch, gradually, add the juice of one lemon. Beat well, spread with a knife. Ornaments may be made of the frosting by putting a little into a paper funnel and squeezing it through in designs upon the cake, after the plain coat has well set. FRUIT CAKE. (No 4.) Three cupfuls of granulated sugar, two cupfuls of butter, one- half cup of molasses, four and one-half cupfuls of flour, five eggs, three pounds of raisins, one and one-half of currants, one-half pound of citron, one teaspponful of Equity baking-powder, one teaspoonful of cloves, allspice, nutmeg and mace, one tablespoon- ful of cinnamon. BLACK CAKE. (No. 5.) Yolks of eight eggs, one cupful of butter, two of granulated sugar, one cupful of sweet milk, three pounds of raisins, two of currants, half of them chopped, one and one-half pounds of citron, one-half pound each dates, figs, and almonds, one cupful of molasses, six cupfuls of flour browned if you wish the cake very dark, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, allspice, cloves, one nutmeg, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. CAKE. 165 FRCTT CAKE. (No. 6.) One and one-half pounds of floor (browned), one and one-half pounds of sugar, one and one-fourth of batter, two pounds of raisins, two of currants, one pound citron, two nutmegs, one-half pint of molasses, one half teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of cloves, and one of cinnamon, ten eggs, three taMespoocfuls of rose water. Bake three hours. EVEBY DAY FBOT CAKE. One cupful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful molas- ses, six cupfuls flour, one cupful sour cream or milk, four eggs, one heaping teaspoonful of soda, one pound of raisins, one pound of currants, one-fourth pound of citron, nutmeg, cloves and mace, one tablespoonful of each. RUTH'S CAKE. One cupful sugar, one-half cup butter, one capful sour milk, one teaspoonful soda, one-half nutmeg, one teaspoonful cinna- mon, one cupful chopped raisins, two and one-half cupfuls flour, a little salt. No NAME CAKE. One scant cup of butter, one cupful of brown sugar, one-fourth cup inilk, one cupful molasses, three cupfuls flour, two eggs, one- half teaspoouful of soda, one cupful currants, one-half pound of citron, one and one-half pounds of seedless raisins, one teaspoon- ful each cloves and cinnamon, one-half nutmeg; add more fruit if you wish. Bake in bread pans from two to three hours, COLD WATER CAKE. One cupful of butter, two cupfuls brown sugar, three cupfuls flour, one cupful cold water, three eggs, well beaten, one tea- spoonful soda, one teaspoonful cloves, one nutmeg, one table- spoonful cmiiamou, one cupful raisins or currants. • COFFEE CAKE, (No, 1,) Two cupfuls brown sugar, one cupful butter, one cupful mo- lasses, one cupful strong coffee, as prepared for the table, four 166 CAKE. eggs, one teaspoonful saleratus, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, two teapoonfuls cloves, one teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, one pound of raisins, one pound of currants, four cupfuls of flour. COFFEE CAKE. (No. 2.) One cupful of butter, one cupful of sugar, one cupful molass- es, one pound of raisins, one teaspoonful each of soda, cinnamon and allspice, one-half nutmeg, three eggs (it can be made with one or two eggs). Sift the soda in the molasses. Excellent. SPICE CAKE. Four and one-half cupfuls of flour, three cupfuls of sugar, one and one-half cupfuls butter, one cupful of sour milk, four eggs

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