Dover Cake

Ingredients

• One pound of flour
• one pound of sugar
• half a pound of butter
• one teacup of milk
• six eggs
• one teaspoonful of baking powder
• one grated nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter; add first sugar, then beaten yolks of eggs and milk, then whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth, and last the flour.

2. 2

   Bake forty-five minutes in a large dripping-pan, sifting fine sugar over the top, and cut in small squares; or it may be baked in one round loaf, and frosted on the bottom, or in small tins.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The easiest way in housekeeping and cooking (1881) by Helen Stuart Campbell, page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Dover Cake. One pound of flour ; one pound of sugar ; half a pound of butter ; one teacup of milk ; six eggs ; one teaspoonful of baking powder ; one grated nutmeg

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