Ellis Cake

Name: Ellis Cake
Yield: 10 servings
Ingredients: one cupful of sugar; one-half cupful of butter; three eggs; one-half cupful of sweet milk; one tea-spoonful of baking-powder; two and one-half cupfuls flour; Flavor with vanilla.

From The new Kentucky home cook book, 1884

Serves 10

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 144. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ELLIS CAKE. Take one cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, three eggs, one-half cupful of sweet milk, one tea-spoonful of bak- ing-powder, two and one-half cupfuls flour. Flavor with vanilla. To be baked in muffin-rings. SEED CAKE. Take one and one-half pint of flour, one large cupful of sugar, three-fourths of a cupful of butter, one wine-glassful of water, one tea-spoonful of baking-powder

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