Cup Cakes
From Original White House Cookbook, 1887
Serves 5
Optional additions include currants, raisins, citron, and almonds.
Presented as published in 1887. 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 Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 198. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
CUP CAKES. Two CUPS of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of milk, three cups and a half of flour and four eggs, half a teaspoonful of soda, large spoon cream of tartar; stir butter and sugar together and add the beaten yolks of the eggs, then the milk, then flavoring and the whites. Put cream of tartar in flour and add last. Bake in buttered gem -pans, or drop the batter, a teaspoonful at a time, in rows on flat buttered tins. To this recipe may be added a cup of English currants or chopped raisins; and also another variety of cakes may be made by adding a half cup of citron sliced and floured, a half cupful of chopped almonds
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