Cold Water Pound Cake

Ingredients

• three eggs
• one and a half cupfuls of sugar
• one-half cupful of soft butter
• one-half cupful of cold water
• two cupfuls of flour
• two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• flavor with lemon

Method

1. 1

   Beat together the eggs and sugar; add the butter, cold water, flour, and baking powder.

2. 2

   Stir all together, flavor with lemon, and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The century cook book (1894) by Jennie A. Hansey, page 73. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, two eggs, one tablespoonful of butter, one cupful of milk, 2^^ cupfuls of flour, and two tablespoonfuls of baking powder. Beat for three minutes, pour into a shallow square tin and bake in a rather quick oven. Cream Cake. Beat together one cup of sugar and* two eggs, then add one cupful of sweet cream, one and two- thirds cupfuls of flour and three teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Stir all together and bake in rather a brisk oven. Snow-Flake Cake. Mix together one and one-half tumblers of powdered sugar, one tumbler of flour, and half a teaspoonful of cream tartar. When they are well mixed, Cake 125 add the well-beaten whites of eight eggs. Bake as you would sponge cake. Golden Cake. Beat together one cupful of butter with two cupfuls of sugar; add one cupful of milk and beat again. Then stir in two and one-half cupfuls of flour, the well- beaten yolks of six eggs, and three teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Stir all together and bake in a loaf or layers. Silver Cake. Beat together one cupful of butter with two cupfuls of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of milk, two and one-half cupfuls of flour and three teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Last of all, stir in the well-beaten whites of six eggs. These cakes can be combined by baking in layers and putting in one of golden, and one of silver, alternately, or they can be baked in a loaf and a marble effect produced by putting in alternately, spoonfuls of each. Soft Ginger Cake. Take a teacup and put into it four tablespoonfuls of hot water, three of melted butter, and fill up the cup with molasses. Put into the stirring bowl one teaspoonful of ginger and one of soda, and to this add the mixture in the cup. Stir in enough flour to make a stiff cake dough. Pour into square tins and bake carefully, ■.W/«^^w^^ Molasses Cake. Put together two cup- fuls of molasses, two of brown sugar, one of sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda, one cupful of butter, two beaten eggs, 5JE^ cupfuls of flour. Beat all together, line a dripping-pan with buttered paper, and put in the dough. Sift white sugar over the top before baking and bake in a slow oven. This is excellent and will keep for weeks. White Cake. Beat together one cupful of granulated sugar with }^ oi a. cupful of butter; beat for ten minutes, 126 Cake then add )^ cupful of sweet milk and i^ cupfuls of flour; last of all, stir in the whites of two eggs beaten to a froth, and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Bake slowly. Delicate Cake. Beat to a cream one-half cupful of butter, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar; then add one cup- ful of milk, three of flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder and the whites of three eggs beaten to a froth. Bake in two layers. Put frosting between and on top. White Cream Cake. Stir together two cupfuls of white sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter, one teacupful of sour cream, one teaspoonful of soda. When these are well mixed, stir in three cupfuls of flour. Last of all, add the well-beaten whites of eight eggs. Bake in shallow baking pans in a moderate oven. Cold Water Pound Cake. Beat together three eggs and i^ cupfuls of sugar; add one-half cupful of soft butter, one-half cupful of cold water, two cupfuls of flour, and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Stir all together, flavor with lemon

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