Dolly Varden Cake

Ingredients

• Three eggs
• two cups of sugar
• two thirds of a cup of butter
• one cup of sweet milk
• three cups of flour
• one tea-spoonful of cream of tartar
• half a tea-spoonful of soda
• two tea-spoonfuls of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Take half of this mixture and flavor it with lemon, and bake it in two tins as for layer cake.

2. 2

   To the other half add molasses, raisins, and spices.

3. 3

   Bake this also in two tins, then put the layers together with jelly between.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Household hints (1881) by Emma Whitcomb Babcock, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Dolly Varden Cake. — Three eggs, two cups of sugar, two thirds of a cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, three cups of flour, one tea-spoonful of cream of tartar, and half a tea-spoonful of soda or two tea-spoonfuls of baking powder

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