Delicious Pound Cup Cakes

Name: Delicious Pound Cup Cakes
Ingredients: one cup powdered sugar; one-third cup butter; three eggs; a small half cup sweet cream; a small half teaspoonful ARM AND HAMMER SODA (or Saleratus); one and a half cups flour; an even teaspoonful cream tartar; flavored with lemon juice

From Arm & Hammer Soda book of valuable recipes, 1900

Do not have the oven too hot. Frost with boiled cream frosting.

Presented as published in 1900. 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 Arm & Hammer Soda book of valuable recipes (1900) by Church & Dwight Co, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DELICIOUS POUND CUP CAKES. Rub to a cream, one cup powdered sugar with one-third cup butter, add three eggs, one at a time, a small half cup sweet cream, a small half teaspoonful A R M AND HAMMER SODA (or Saleratus), and an even teaspoonful cream tartar sifted into one and a half cups flour. Beat all well together and fill into well greased deep cup-cake moulds. Use no flavoring. Do not have the oven too hot. Frost on bottom and sides with boiled cream frosting, flavored with lemon juice. Insist on having Arm and Hammer Soda. 22 SOFT GINGERBREAD. One cupful molasses, one-half cup¬ ful shortening, one egg, one teaspoonful of arm and Hammer soda (or Saleratus) dissolved in half cup warm water, one teaspoonful ginger. Use sifted flour to make batter. BERKSHIRE CAKES. Three-quarters of a pint of molasses, a heaping tablespoonful butter, a half teaspoonful ARM AND HAMMER SODA (or Saleratus), a small half tea¬ cup sour milk, a pinch of salt, a table¬ spoonful ginger, a teaspoonful cinna¬ mon and enough sifted flour to thicken, two handfuls of currants. Roll out a quarter of an inch thick and cut in slices; prick well with fork and bake in a steady heat. GOLD CAKE (DELICIOUS). Rub to a cream one-half cup short¬ ening and three-fourths of a cup sugar, then add slowly two eggs, a half cup milk and a small half teaspoonful arm and Hammer soda (or Saleratus)

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