Fig Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups of sugar
• ^ cup of butter
• ^ cup of milk
• 2^ cups of flour
• whites of 6 eggs
• 1 teaspoon of powder
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla (Sauer's)

Method

1. 1

   Mix and put layers together with filling.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The way to the heart (1905) by Carrie Pickett Moore, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

teaspoons of powder, and when well mixed pour in the chocolate mixture. Bake in layers and ice with a white icing. Caramel Cake. Two cups of sugar, i cup of butter, 5 eggs, i cup of milk, 3 cups of flour, I teaspoon of powder, 2 teaspoons of Sauer's vanilla. Bake in layers and use the following as a filling: Icing. — Two pounds of brown sugar, 2 ounces of butter, 2 teacups of milk. Boil until thick and add 3 teaspoons of Sauer's 94 TESTED VIRGINIA RECIPES. vanilla extract. Beat until it begins to harden. Then pour in I cup ci chopped black walnuts and spread on the layers. Lemon Cake. Make the usual batter for layer cake and put it together with 3 eggs (beaten light), 2 cupfe of sugar, butter size of an egg, juice of 3 lemons. Set the stew-pan in water, and cook until thick enough not to run from the cake. Cool and ice. Walnut Cake. Two cups of sugar, i cup of butter, 5 eggs, i cup of milk, 3 cups of flour, I teaspoon of powder, 1^/2 teaspoons of Sauer's lemon extract. Divide the batter in three parts, flavor two of them with lemon, and to the third add i teaspoon of cinnamon, 1^4 teaspoons each of cloves and allspice, ^ nutmeg. Bake in 3 layers and put between them the following : Icing. — Five lemons, i^ pounds of pulverized sugar, 2 pounds English walnuts. Squeeze lemons and mix the sugar in them ; chop the nuts, taking out enough to cover the top, and beat the whole quickly together. If the icing is too thin to stay on the cake, add a little more sugar. When the icing begins to set, place the whole nuts over the top and set away to harden. Date Cake. One and one-half cups of sugar, ^ cup of butter, 2 large cups of flour, I cup of milk, 5 eggs (leaving out 2 whites), 2 teaspoons of powder, i teaspoon of Sauer's almond extract, and ^ pound of dates, chopped. Bake in sheets and ice. Date Icing. — White of 2 eggs, 2 cups of sugar, y^ cup of water, i teaspoon of vinegar, y^ pound of dates, i teaspoon each of Sauer's lemon and vanilla extract. Make a boiled icing, and add the dates that have been sliced. Beat until the icing begins to harden. CAKES. 95 Silver and Gold Cake. White JLayers. — Whites of 6 eggs, i>4 cups of sugar, y^ cup of butter, ^ cup oi milk, 2>^ cups of flour, i teaspoon of powder, I teaspoon of Sauer's almond extract. Gold Layers. — Yelks of 6 eggs, >4 cup of butter, i cup of milk, i^ cups of sugar, 2>4 cups tiour, i teaspoon of powder, I teaspoon of Sauer's orange extract. Put together with a layer of white and one of yellow. Icing. — Yelks of 4 eggs, beaten light, with >4 pound of white sugar and J4 pound of butter; cream well and cook on a slow fire until thick. Then add the whites of 4 eggs (well beaten) and I teaspoon of Sauer's orange extract. Cook long enough to thicken, and when done, beat into it 2 tablespoons each of chopped almonds and walnuts. Fig Cake. Two cups of sugar, y^ cup of butter, ^ cup of milk, 2^ cups of flour, whites of 6 eggs, i teaspoon of powder, i teaspoon of vanilla (Sauer's).

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