Drop Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 pound sugar
• 10 eggs
• 10 ounces butter
• 1 pint milk or water
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 pounds flour

Method

1. 1

   Beat the sugar and eggs together a few minutes, in a good sized pan.

2. 2

   Melt the butter in a little saucepan, beat it in and the milk, powder and flour.

3. 3

   Beat up well.

4. 4

   Drop spoonfuls on baking pans very slightly greased and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 91. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Drop Cakes. 1 pound sugar — 2 cups. 10 eggs. 10 ounces butter — 1 large cup. J pint milk or water. 4 teaspoons baking powder. 2 pounds flour — 8 level cups. Beat the sugar and eggs together a few minutes, in a good sized pan, as if baking sponge cake. Melt the butter in a little saucepan, beat it in and the milk, powder and flour. Beat up well Drop epoonfnls on baking pans very slightly greased and bake in a moderate oven. They rise in the middle cone shaped For variations sprinkle currants on top, or a shred of citron, or gravel sugar. The latter is crushed loaf sugar sifted through the holes of a colander and tbe dust sifted away. Cost of material — sugar 10, eggs, 20, butter 20, powder 4, flour 6; 60 cents for 4 J pounds plain — about 80 to 100 according to size and lightneps. 285— German Almond Cake. A cheap and simple sort of lunch cake to be cut in square blocks Only good while fresh. 8 ounces sugar — 1 cup. 4 ounces butter — J cup. 6 eggs. 1 pint milk or water

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