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Colonial Cake

Name: Colonial Cake
Yield: 3 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup sugar; % cup butter; 1 cup milk; 2 eggs; 2 cups flour; % cup of chocolate mixed dry; 1 teaspoon of baking powder; pinch of soda

From San Rafael cook book, 1906, 1906

Serves 3

Frosting: 0.5 cup milk, 1 cup sugar, a small piece of butter, stir well, then cook without stirring until it strings, remove from fire and add vanilla.

Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

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As published

This recipe was extracted from San Rafael cook book, 1906 (1906) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 72. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COLONIAL CAKE— Mrs. C. C. Olmsted. 1 cup sugar, % cup butter, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs, 2 cups flour and % cup of chocolate mixed dry, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, pinch of soda

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