Cold Water Cake

Ingredients

• one and one-half cups sugar
• one-half cup of butter
• 2% cups flour
• two eggs
• one cup of water
• two teaspoonfuls baking powder
• Flavor with vanilla or lemon

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The National home cook book (1900), page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COLD WATER CAKHE—One and one-half cups sugar, : one-half cup of butter, 2% cups flour, two eggs, one cup of water, two teaspoonfuls baking ._powder. -Flavor with vanilla or lemon “a COLONIAL HATS—For Washington’s Birthday—These ~ ‘will please the younger members of the family, and could ~ also be used at a function given for older people. é z Take a cup of seeded raisins, chop fine; piece of lemon ~ and grated rind of same, one egg, one cup sugar, pinch salt, ~ if liked, a piece of citron, size of half a dollar. Mix well by — beating thoroughly together. 2 Put a tablespoon of this mixture on rounds of light pie — paste from six to seven inches in diameter and very thinly | rolled. Fold together in three directions, so they will re= ~ semble the three-cornered colonial hat. . . Leave no opening in the dough, but press edges firmly he together so that not a drop of contents can escape. Arrange in baking pan, brush over with milk in whicha — little sugar is dissolved, bake 15 to 20 minutes. - ae *~ CRUMB CAKE—Four and a half cups flour, one cup lard, ~ one tablespoon cinnamon, one tablespoon allspice, one nut- ~ meg (grated), one pound dark brown sugar, one cup A sugar. © Crumb all this together like pie dough, with the hands, then ~ take out a bowlful for top of cake. Add one pint sour milk, one tablespoon soda, one box of raisins (or raisins and cur- rants mixed). Bake 40 mnutes. Be careful not to burn. Will fill a pan 10x18 inches and is two inches deep. ~ CUSTARD. CAKE—One full cup sugar, three eggs, two tablespoons milk or water, one full cup flour, one teaspoon — baking powder. This makes three large layers. For custard filling between layers, one cup milk, one tablespoon corn- starch, one-half cup sugar (scant), butter size of walnut, flavor to taste. CRUMMEL TORTE—Yolks of six eggs well beaten, one- half cup sygar, beat for 15 minutes. Salt. Add one-half | ~ pound dates, one-half pound walnuts, three tablespoons grated wheat bread, one teaspoon baking powder. Add the - beaten whites of the eggs. Bake.in two layers. When cool — . break in small pieces. Cover with whipped cream. DATE CAKHE—One large cup sugar, butter size of egg, © - one cup sour milk, teaspoon soda, pinch salt, spices to taste, - two cups of flour, one pound dates, stoned, and flour; bake - one hour in slow oven. This is fine. <n a a i ae Be I am sending my mother’s recipe for ‘“devil’s food.’ ” Tt is * by far the best I have used: One-half cup cocoa or grated ‘chocolate; one-half cup sweet milk, two-thirds cup light brown sugar, yolk of one egg. Beat all together and cook © until it thickens, stirring to keep from burning. When cool © add to it one cup light brown sugar, one-half cup butter, — » one-half cup sweet milk, 1% cups flour, two eggs, one scant _ teaspoon soda, dissolve in a little hot water. Bake in layers | - or loaf, but have a very slow fire, and if there is danger of ~ oh burning on bottom, put a dish-of cold water on the pottom — “of the oven, under the cake. If you use care you will find — _ this very finé and not hard to make. I sometimes put gine Py ey Barosting between layers and on top. a ee As i at of ‘EL, BAW, aah oy — PENS eee sl ee Se eee It has been tried and not found wanting in any particular. No molasses is used in it: One cupful sugar (coffee A is best), one-half cupful butter, cream together butter and sugar; one cupful sour milk or buttermilk, two ‘ whites and yolks beaten separately; two teaspoonfuls A cinnamon, one cupful currants, one cupful raisins, one-half candied lemon peel, three cupfuls flour, one teaspoonful soda nd one-half teaspoonful cream of’tartar sifted in the flour. — Hither chop fine or grind the currants, raisins and lemon ~ peel, then dredge in flour. Add beaten whites of eggs last. hope this recipe will be of value to some of the house= a ‘ives who find it hard to obtain good molasses. ® “i ECONOMY FRUIT CAKE—This recipe is a very good one and is especially valuable when butter and:eggs are high, ~ since it requires neither. Four cups flour, two cups sugar, a three-quarters cup lard, 14% cups sour milk, one pound ~ aisins, one tablespoon cinnamon, one tablespoon cloves, one © teaspoon spice, 14% teaspoons ‘soda, one teaspoon baking | powder, one whole nutmeg (grated). EGGLESS CAKE—Three-fourths cup sugar, thrao-faau hk a p shortening, one-half cup sweet milk, one cup sifted flour, inch salt, three tablespoons corn starch. One and one-half — % one nice loaf or two layers.. Hope the sisters that tried myio8 one egg cake recipe and my eggless plum pudding sonne at . EGGLESS AND BUTTERLESS CAKE—One cupful sugar, fe. “one cupful sour milk, one cupful raisins, one tablespoonful Bs. lard, two tablespoonfuls cocoa, one teaspoonful soda, three=- fourths teaspoonful cinnamon, one-fourth teaspoonful nut- ~— meg, one-fourth teaspoonful cloves, 1% cupfuls flour. Cream Dissolve soda in sour milk. Mix all weil NEN together and bake in a quick oven 15 minutes. i _ EGGLESS FRUIT CAKE—One cup sugar, one cup Of at butter, one cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, — one- -half teaspoonful of cloves, one-half teaspoonful of nut- meg, one teaspoonful of soda, two cups of flour, one cup of isins floured and added last. Beat sugar and butter to a i EGGLESS SPICE CAKE—One cup sugar, two tablespoons . utter, one teaspoon cinnamon, one-fourth teaspoon each of é cloves and nutmeg, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, two cups flour and one-half cup chopped raisins. ; : il it strings; then beat with eggs. _ FEATHER LAYER CAKE—Three eggs beaten peparaia ly, two cups sugar and one-half cup butter, creamed; one cup — rich milk, three cups flour, two teaspoonsful baking powder

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