Fig Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups sugar
• two-thirds cup butter
• not quite two-thirds cup sweet milk
• whites of eight eggs
• three heaping teaspoons baking powder
• three cups flour
• one cup sugar
• yolks of seven egos
• one whole egg
• one and a-half teaspoons baking powder
• allspice, and cinnamon until you can taste it
• one pound fresh figs

Method

1. 1

   Bake the white in two long pie tins.

2. 2

   Layer with figs and cover with frosting.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 7 servings.

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.

two cups sugar, three cups flour, four egos, one-half cup milk, three teaspoons baking powder ; bake in jelly tins. For filling stir together a grated lemon, a large grated tart apple, an egg, and a cup of sugar, and boil four minutes. MINERVA CAKE, = One and a-half cups granulated sugar, half cup butter stirred to a cream, whites of six eggs, or three whole eggs, two teaspoons cream tartar stirred in two heaping cups sifted flour, one teaspoon soda in half cup sweet milk ; bake in three layers. For filling, one small cup sugar and a little water boiled together until it is brittle when dropped in cold water, remove from the stove and stir quickly into the well-beaten white of an egg; add one cup chopped hickory nut meats, and spread between layers. COCOA-NUT CAKE. To the well beaten yolks of six eggs, add two cups powdered white sugar, three-fourths cup butter, one cup CAKES, 209 Sa = er sweet milk, three and one-half cups flour, 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

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