Composition Cake
From Harper's cook book encyclopædia, 1902
Serves 20
An old-fashioned recipe.
Presented as published in 1902. 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 Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Composition Cake CAKES Custard Rolls of baking - powder, one and a half teaspoonfuls of powdered cloves, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, J4 lb. of raisins, J4 lb. of currants. Composition Cake (an old-fashion- ed recipe). — Three-quarters of a pound of butter, I % lbs* of sugar, i% lbs. of flour, four eggs, one pint of sweet milk, a level teaspoonful of saleratus, 2 lbs. of raisins, lb. of citron, three table-spoonfuls of cinnamon, one large table-spoonful of cloves, one of mace mixed in a wineglassful of wine or brandy, one nutmeg
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