Dark Cake
From Temperance cook book, 1887
Serves 9
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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As published
This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 110. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
One cupful of butter, two cupfuls of powdered sugar, one cup- ful of sweet milk, three cupfuls of flour, whites of eight eggs, three teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder. DARK PART. — One cupful of butter, two cupfuls of dark brown 184 CAKE. sugar, one cupful of molasses, one cupful of sour milk, four cup- fuls of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, yolks of eight eggs, one pound of currants, one pound of raisins, all kinds of spices
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