Four Layer Ribbon Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups sugar
• 2-3 cup shortening
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sweet milk
• a little salt
• and flavoring
• 3 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon soda
• I tablespoon molasses
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 4% teaspoon cloves
• and allspice
• a little nutmeg
• raisins and currants, as you wish.

Method

1. 1

   Cook two-thirds of the batter in three layers; add the remaining ingredients to the rest of the batter.

2. 2

   Put together with boiled sugar or jelly while warm.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Magnet users cook book (1920) by Petrie Manufacturing Co, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4% teaspoon cloves, % teaspoon nutmeg, 4 lb. of citron, 4 flour to hold together.—Mrs. Edmund E, Conrad, West Lawrencetown, N. 8S. E PORK CAKE SPICED. Take a pound or 1 tea cup fat salt pork, free ~ from lean chops, so as to be like lard, pour on it 4% cup boiling water, add 2 4 cups sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon soda, stirred in molasses, 1 lb. raisins, : -% lb. citron, shaved fine. Stir in sifted flour enough to make. like cake batter, Season with 1 teaspoon cloves and nutmeg and 2 teaspoons cin- - hamon.—Mrs. H, Echlin, Olds, Alta. _ ~. POTATO CAKE. Two cups flour, 1 cup cold mashed potatoes, 2 table- - spoons butter, 1 egg, 2 teaspoons baking powder, enough milk to have a soft dough, knead lightly. Cut in squares. Bake in a quick oven. Serve hot, _ —Mrs. W. M. Evans, Vancouver, B. C. QUEEN CAKE. One lb. flour, 1 lb. sugar, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 25 3-451b: butter, 5 eggs, 1 gill of wine, brandy and cream, 1 lb. of ee Mace and nutmeg to taste. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add egg well beaten, then wine, brandy, flour, spices and fruit. Chopped raisins a be used in place of currants if preferred. Bake two hours in a pretty hot oven.—Mrs. Mains, Boissevain, Man. a RAISIN -CAKE.- One cup raisins, boil 20 minutes, 3-4 cup brown sugar, eS % cup butter, 1 egg, beaten light, 1 teaspoon soda, 11% cups flour, 2 tea- ‘spoons nutmeg, 4% teaspoon cinnamon, % cup water that raisins were boiled .: in. Beat butter and sugar together to a cream, add spices, beat the yolks of ® the eggs, and add to the raisin water and mix with first part. Add the flour g -and soda, mix in the raisins and. lastly, the stiffly beaten white of egg— _ Mrs. F. Levergood, Harrow, Ontario. ee FOUR LAYER RIBBON CAKE. Two cups sugar, 2-3 cup shortening, os 3 eggs, 1 cup sweet milk, a little salt, and flavoring, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar, 1 teaspoon soda. Cook two-thirds of this in three layers; -to the remainder add I tablespoon molasses, 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 4% tea- 9 H.P. MAGNET ENGINE FOR WINTER USE Mr. 8S. 8. Walker, Grace, Sask., says:—Threshing oats with a 24” cylinder machine on the first of January, my Magnet 9 H.P. had power to spare, It Ss gunple, strong and uses very little fuel. 57 | = spoon cloves and allspice, a little nutmeg, raisins and currants, as you wizh.

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