Denver Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup sweet milk
• 1.5 cups sugar
• 3 cups sifted flour
• 6 eggs
• 2 teaspoons baking powder

Method

1. 1

   This cake must be well beaten.

2. 2

   It will make 5 layers.

3. 3

   Use any filling desired.

4. 4

   It can be made in high altitudes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 280. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DENVER CAKE. i cup butter. 1 cup sweet milk, li cups sugar. 3 cups sifted flour. 6 eggs. 2 teaspoons baking powder. This cake must be well beaten. It will make 5 layers. Use any filling desired. It can be made in high altitudes. ECONOMICAL LAYER CAKE. i cup butter. 2 cups flour. 1 cup sugar. 3 teaspoons baking powder. 1 tablespoon corn=starch made smooth in 1 cup sweet milk. Bake in thin sheets. Use cream, cocoanut, jelly or any filling desired. FIG LAYER CAKE. i cup butter. 2 cups flour (sifted). 1 cup sugar. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 4 large or 5 small eggs. 1 teaspoon vannilla. i cup milk. Bake in 4 layers. When cold spread on our " Fig Filling, No. 1." LAYEK CAKES 367 lEOQUOIS CAKE, i cup butter. li cups flour. 1 cup powdered sugar. 2 teaspoons baking powder 3 whites of eggs. (scant), i cup milk. 1 teaspoon lemon extract. Bake in 2 tins, and use the " icing filling " given among our fillings. JELLY CAKE. i cup butter. i cup milk (scant). 1 cup sugar. If cups flour. 2 eggs. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 1 teaspoon of any flavoring. Bake in three layers. Spread jelly between layers for filling. PEACH CAKE. Bake sponge cake in 3 layers as for jelly cake; take fine ripe peaches, chop fine or slice thin. Between layers and on top put a layer of the peaches and cover them with either the whipped cream or mock whipped cream given among our fillings. Eat soon after pre- paring it. ROCHESTEK JELLY CAKE. LIGHT PAET. 1 cup butter. 3 cups flour. 2 cups white sugar. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 6 whites of eggs. 1 teaspoon lemon extract. 1 cup sweet milk. Bake in 3 layers. DAEK PAET. i cup butter. 2 cups seeded raisins. 1 cup brown sugar. i cup citron (chopped fine). i cup molasses. ^ teaspoon cloves. 1 egg. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 2 cups flour. i nutmeg, grated. i teaspoon soda dissolved 1 teaspoon lemon extract. in i cup coffee. Bake in 2 layers. Put light and dark parts alternately, spreading jelly between the layers. Frost the top. 368 LAYER CAKES ROLLED JELLY CAKE. 1 cup sugar. 1 cup flour 3 eggs. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 2 tablespoons milk. i teaspoon lemon extract. Bake in a long tin, and while warm spread with jelly or jam. (raspberry is best) and roll thus; spread a towel on the table, lay on the cake, and roll, keeping towel over it to prevent its cracking. Do not take off towel until the cake is cold. MINNEHAHA CAKE. 1 cup butter. 3 cups flour. 2 cups sugar

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