Favorite Cake

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 2 1/4 level teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 level teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1/4 cup butter
• 3/4 cup water
• 4 eggs
• flavoring

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour, baking powder and salt three times.

2. 2

   Cream sugar and butter, break in one egg, add a little of the flour and water, beat well.

3. 3

   Continue this process until you have used all the eggs.

4. 4

   Add flavoring last.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Carbon County cook book (1926), page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 level teaspoons baking pow- der, 1 cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, flour enough to make stiff enough to roll. Cream shortening, add sugar and beaten eggs, milk, flour, baking powder and soda (dissolved in a little warm water). Roll thin, cut and bake. Filling—1 package raisins, 114 cups sugar, two-thirds cup water. Put sugar on raisins, add wa- ter and cook for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Figs may be used instead or with the raisins, put hetween cookies. ANNA S. MATHIS. + oa eed se Ce ae 16 CARBON COUNTY COOK BOOK Southern Fruit Cake. 1 cup each of butter, sugar and molas- ses, 14 cup buttermilk, 3 cups flour, 3 eggs beaten separately, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 14 teaspoon each of cloves and allspice, 14, tea- spoon nutmeg, 14 pint seeded raisins, 14 cup currants, 14 teaspoon soda. Mix in order named. Dissolve soda in one tablespoon hot water and add last. Bake in slow oven. MRS. O. H. GUYNKION. Date Cake. 1 cup flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 14 tea- spoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 cup sugar, 1 pound seeded dates, 1 pound walnuts, 4 eggs (beat separately—yolks very stiff and the whites very stiff). Bake one hour in slow oven. MRS. REX MILLER. Fruit Cake. 14 cup butter, 1/4, cup lard, 114 cups sugar, 6 eggs, 1 cup milk, 14 cup molasses, 14 teaspoon soda, 1 pound currants, 1 pound raisins, 1 pound walnuts, 1 teaspoon each of cloves, cinna- mon, nutmeg, allspice and mace, 14 cup lemon peel, 14 cup citron, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 teaspoon lemon extract. Cream lard, butter and sugar and add eggs well beaten. Dissolve soda in the milk and mo- lasses and add spices and extract. Mix the raisins, currants and peel with 1 cup of flour and add to the above mixture. Lastly add 2 teaspoons baking powder in enough flour to make a thick dough. CAROLINE ROBB. Devil’s Food Cake. Boil together until as thick as cream 14 cup grated chocolate, 144 cup brown sugar and a gill of sweet milk, set aside to cool. Cream 14 cup butter with 1 cup brown sugar, add 2 well beaten eggs, two-thirds cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon van- illa, now beat in boiled mixture, add 2 cups flour and 1 teaspoon baking powder. Ice with simple icing. | MRS. ‘L. M. RASMUSSEN. Favorite Cake. 3 cups flour, 214 level teaspoons baking pow- »»-der, 14 level teaspoon salt, 1144 cups sugar, *4, cup butter, 34 cup i d water, 4 eggs, flavoring

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