DOLLY VARDEN CAKE

Ingredients

• one cupful of butter
• two cupfuls of powdered sugar
• yelks of four eggs
• three cupfuls of flour
• three-fourths cupful of sweet milk
• the whites of two eggs
• one cupful of raisins
• one table-spoonful of mixed spices

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar together, then add the yolks of the eggs, flour, and sweet milk.

2. 2

   Beat the batter well, then add the whites of the eggs and baking powder.

3. 3

   To not quite half the batter, add the raisins and mixed spices.

4. 4

   This will make four cakes, two with raisins and two plain.

5. 5

   Boil a large tea-cupful of sugar until it candies, pour over the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth; flavor with vanilla; put between the cakes, and ice the top layer.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 142. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DOLLY VARDEN CAKE. Cream one cupful of butter and two cupfuls of powdered sugar together, then add the yelks of four eggs, three cup- fuls of flour, and three-fourths cupful of sweet milk. Beat the batter well, then add the whites of the eggs and baking- powder. To not quite half the batter add one cupful of raisins which have been seeded and chopped fine, and one 280 The New Kentucky Home Cook Booh, table-spoonful of mixed spices. This will make four cakes, two with raisins aud two plain. Boil a large tea-cupful of sugar until it candies, pour over the whites of two eggs

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