Dream Cake

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1.5 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground mace
• a pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

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   Put butter in a bowl; add sugar.

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   Cream or rub thoroughly together.

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   Beat yolks of eggs.

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   Add to butter and sugar, stirring well.

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   3.

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   Mix and sift twice flour, baking powder, mace, and salt.

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   4.

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    Add one-third of the milk to the yolks, butter, and sugar.

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    5.

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    Sift in one-third of the flour.

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    Do this until all the milk and flour are used, beating well each time.

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    6.

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    Add vanilla.

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    Beat well.

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    7.

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    Beat white of eggs light.

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    Fold them into the cake.

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    8.

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    Grease shallow pan.

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    Pour in the cake.

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    9.

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    Bake in moderate oven about 35 minutes, or until it shrinks from the pan.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Mary Frances cook book (1912) by Jane Eayre Fryer, page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4 tablespoons butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs I cup milk Dream Cake. Ij cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder I teaspoon ground mace clash of salt 1 teaspoon vanilla

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