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Cold Water Cake
From Temperance cook book, 1887
Serves 5
Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 99. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
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, one teaspoonful of saleratus, two teaspoonfuls each of cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon, one pound of raisins, one pound of cur- rants, one-fourth pound of citron. MOUNT VERNON CAKE. One and one-fourth pounds of white sugar, one-half pound of butter, one and three-fourths pounds of flour, six eggs, one pint of sour cream, one teaspoonful soda
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