Cracker Cake

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 2 cups of sugar
• 1/2 cup of butter
• 1 cup of milk
• 1 cup of soda crackers
• 1 cup of pecans
• 1 cup of flour
• 1 teaspoonful of extract
• 1 1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   For icing, use 1 cup hot water; 1 cup sugar; yolk of 1 egg; 1 lemon; 1 tablespoonful cornstarch; 1 teaspoonful butter.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book (1921), page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cracker Cake. 4 eggs; 2 cups of sugar; y2 cup butter; 1 cup of milk; ! cup of soda crackers; 1 cup of pecans; 1 cup flour; 1 teaspoonful of extract; iy2 teaspoonful of baking powder. ICING: 1 cup hot water; 1 cup sugar; yolk of 1 egg; 1 lemon; 1 tablespoonful cornstarch; 1 teaspoon- ful butter. MRS. ALFRED HENKE. Cocoanut Layer Cake. 3 eggs; 1 cup sugar; 2 tablespoons butter; 2 tea- spoons baking powder; 1 cup sweet milk; 2 cups sugar. WHITE FILLING: 2 cups sugar; % cup sweet milk. Cook 5 minutes, then add 1 teaspoon butter and 1 teaspoon flavoring. Take from oven and beat till creamy. Spread on cake quickly before it hardens. MRS. EMIL KOLMEIER. — 123 — Illinois Cake. 5 eggs; 2 cupfuls of sugar; 1 cupful of butter; 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder; 3 cupfuls of flour, and 1 cupful of sweet milk. Flavor with, vanilla. FILLING: 1 cupful of sugar and enough water to dissolve the sugar; put in a pan and let simmer on the stove until it candies. Then chop fine, 1 cupful of seedless raisins. Stir into the candied sugar, then add the beaten whites of 2 eggs; flavor with vanilla. MRS. AD. GOLD. Lady Baltimore Cake. 1 cup butter; 2 cups sugar; 1 cup milk; 3% cups flour; whites of 3 eggs; 1 teaspoon rose water; 3 tea- spoons baking powder. FILLING: 3 cups sugar; 1 cup boiling water; l1 cup chopped raisins; 1 cup nut meats; 5 figs, cut in thin slices, whites of 3 eggs. MRS. WM. KUENEMANN. Potato Cake. 1 cup butter ; 2 cups sugar ; 4 eggs ; 1 cooked potato ; !/o cup sweet milk; 1 cup chopped pecans; % cup chocolate; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; i/> teaspoon cloves; y2 teaspoon nutmeg; 2 cups flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder. CHOCOLATE CARAMEL FILLING: */2 lb sugar; 14 lb grated chocolate; V> cup sweet milk; butter, size of an egg. Mix and cook to a syrup stiff enough to spread. MRS. AUG. JORDAN. — 124 — Potato Cake. 2y2 cups of sugar; y2 cup of butter: y2 cup of potatoes, (mashed) ; y2 cup of milk; y2 cup of grated chocolate; 214 cups of flour

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