Eggless Cake
From Dora's cook book, 1888
Serves 4
Incomplete recipe.
Presented as published in 1888. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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As published
This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
one teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, whites of four egas well beaten; bake in jelly-pans. For icing, grate one cocoanut, beat whites of two eggs, and add one teacup powdered sugar ; mix thoroughly with the grated cocoanut, and spread evenly on layers of cake when they are cold. FIG CAKE. Silver part:—Twocups sugar, two-thirds cup butter, not quite two-thirds cup sweet milk, whites of eight eggs, three heaping teaspoons baking powder thoroughly sifted, with three cups flour; stir sugar and butter to a cream, dd milk and flour, and lastly whites ofeggs, Gold part:— One cup sugar, three-fourths cup butter, half cup sweet milk, one and a-half teaspoons baking powder sifted in a little more than one and a-half cups flour, yolks of seven egos thoroughly beaten, and one whole egg, one teaspoon- ful allspice, and cinnamon until you can taste it; bake the white in two long pie tins. Put half the gold in a pie tin, and lay on one pound fresh figs, cut in halves (previously sifted over with flour), so that they will just touch each other, put on the rest of the gold, and bake. Put the cakes together with frosting while warm, the gold between the white ones, and cover with frosting. EGGLESS CAKE. One and one-half cups sugar, one cup sour milk, three (level) cups of sifted flour, one-half cup butter, one tea- spoonful soda, one-half teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half = sale SOO at De cee Cae BES a re oe ay ae ae ke ( m ae a“ : 210 DORA’S COOK BUOK. | - teaspoonful grated ntESS g, one cup of chopped and well floured raisins
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