Cream Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1.5 cups flour
• 3 eggs
• 2 small teaspoons baking powder
• 3 tablespoons water

Method

1. 1

   Bake in 4 jelly tins, and when done spread the layers with the cream filling given among our fillings.

2. 2

   Do not spread on the filling till the cake is cold.

3. 3

   If preferred it can be baked in 2 ordinary pie tins and split open when cold.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 279. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

. 2 cups flour. 1 cup sweet milk. 2 teaspoons baking powder. Bake in layers, and use the apple filling given among the previous fillings. CHOCOLATE CAKE No. 1. i cup butter. 4 eggs. 2 cups powdered sugar. 2 cups flour (well filled). i cup sweet milk. 2 teaspoons baking powder. Divide into 3 parts and bake 2 layers as mixed. Into the third part mix i cup grated chocolate and bake. For the icing, boil 1 cup white sugar and 3 spoonfuls water till it ropes; add the white of an egg and beat together until white. Ice each layer, putting the dark layer in the center, and ice the top. BEATEN CREAM CAKE. i cup butter. 3 whites of eggs. 1 cup sugar. 2 cups flour. I cup milk. 2 teaspoons baking powder. Bake in 3 layers and put together with thick sweet cream beaten with a little pulverized sugar. Or use the " mock whipped cream " given among the fillings. CHEAP CREAM CAKE. 1 tablespoon butter. 1 egg. 1 cup sugar. 2 cups flour. 1 cup sweet milk. 1 teaspoon baking powder. Add 1 teaspoon of any flavoring and bake in lay- ers. Use the cream filling given among our fillings. LAYER CAKES 365 CHOCOLATE CAKE No. 2. i cup butter. 2 eggs. 1 cup sugar. 2 cups flour, i cup sweet milk. li teaspoons baking powder. Bake in layers. Chocolate Cream For Filling. — Take i cup milk, yolk of 1 egg, i cup chocolate, 1 teaspoon vanilla; sweeten to taste; boil until thick as jelly. Spread between layers when cold. COCOANUT CAKE. 1 cup butter. 10 whites of eggs. 2 cups sugar. 3i cups flour. 1 cup sweet milk. 2i teaspoons baking powder. Filling. — Whites of 2 eggs beaten stiff and sugar enough added to keep it from running; spread it on layers, and sprinkle cocoanut between layers and on top of cake. COCOANUT CAKE No. 2. i cup butter. h cup corn= starch, li cups sugar. li cups flour, i cup water. 1 teaspoon cream tartar. 6 whites of eggs. i teaspoon soda. Bake in layer tins. Then take the whites of 3 eggs and beat to a froth with 6 tablespoons of sugar and 1 cup grated cocoanut. Use it for both filling and frost- ing. CREAM CAKE. 1 cup sugar. li cups flour. 3 eggs. 2 small teaspoons baking 3 tablespoons water

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