French Cake
From The royal baker and pastry cook, 1902
Presented as published in 1902. 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 royal baker and pastry cook (1902) by New York Cooking School, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 3 cups flour, 20 drops extract bitter almonds. Rub the butter and sugar to a cream. Add the eggs, 2 at a time, beating 5 minutes after each addition. Sift together the flour and powder, which add to the butter, etc., with the extract. Mix into a smooth, medium batter. Bake in well-greased cups or muffln-pans (fig. VII), in a rather hot oven, 20 minutes. Currant Cake. — 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 pint flour, IV2 cups currants, washed and picked, 2 teaspoons extract cinnamon, and 1 teaspoon extract lemon. Rub the butter and sugar to a white, light cream. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating a few minutes after each. Add the flour sifted with the powder, the currants, and the extracts. Mix into a medium batter. Bake in paper-lined cake-tin (fig. IX) 50 minutes, in a moderate oven. Currant Cake, No 2. — cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 3 eggs, cup milk, 2 cups flour, tea- spoon salt, 1'^ teaspoons Royal Baking Pow- der, 1 cup cleaned currants, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder, dredge the cui’raiits. Cream butter and sugar. Add beaten yolks and vanilla. Beat in flour and milk; add whipped whites and currants, and beat hard. Bake in shallow pan in moderately hot oven. Currant Cake (English). — 1 % cups butter, 2 cups sugar, 7 eggs, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, Mi cup citron, in small thin slices, the rind of an orange, peeled very thin and cut in shreds, 2 cups cuiTants, washed and picked, IMi pints flour, 1 teaspoon extract nutmeg. Rub the butter and sugar to a white, light cream. Add the eggs, 2 at a time, beating 5 minutes after each addition. Sift the flour and powder together. Add it to the butter, etc., with the citron, orange peel, currants, and the extract. Bake in a thickly paper- lined tin (fig. XIII), 1 hour and 25 minutes, in a moderate oven. Duchesse Cake. — It^ cups butter, 1 cup sugar, 6 eggs, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 pint flour, 1 teaspoon extract cin- namon. Rub the butter and sugar to a light cream. Add the eggs, 2 at a time, beating 10 minutes after each addition. Sift together flour and powder, add to the butter, etc., with the extract. Mix into a medium thick batter, and bake in small, shallow, square pans (fig. XII), lined with thin white paper, in a steady oven .30 minutes. When they are taken from the oven, ice them. Soft Gingerbread. — Mi cup butter, 2 cups molasses, 1 cup sugar, 4 cups flour, 1 cup milk, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, gin- ger and cloves to taste. Dark Fruit Cake. — 2 cups butter, 2 cups sugar, 12 eggs, 4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, Mi teaspoon salt, 1 pound cur- rants, 1 pound sliced citron, 3 pounds seeded raisins, 1 pound chopped figs, % cup any kind of wine, 2 tablespoons strained lemon juice, 2 teaspoons cinnamon. Mi teaspoon each cloves and mace, ■I4 teaspoon each allspice and nut- meg. Sift together flour, salt, baking powder, and spices. Dredge fruit thoroughly. Cream butter and sugar, add beaten yolks and lemon juice. Alternate flour and wine, add whipped whites, and beat for 10 minutes. Stir in pre- pared fruit. Line loaf-pans with 4 thicknesses paper ; pour in batter. Bake in slow oven from 3 to 5 hours, covering pans with paper tin til % baked. Delicate Fruit Cake. — % cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup milk, 2% cups flour, V4 teaspoon salt, THE ROYAL BAKING POWDER IS ABSOLUTELY PURE. 14 THE ROYAL BAKER AND PASTRY COOK 2 teasp>oons Royal Baking Powder, whites 5 eggs, 1 tablespoon grated lemon rind. Cream butter and mix dry ingredients. Cream butter and sugar. Add whipped whites, flour, and milk, and beat hard. To 5 tablespoons of this batter add spices to taste, and 1 oup raisins and cup sliced citron, and bake in 1 layer. Bake remainder of batter in 2 layer-pans. When cold put together with boiled icing, hav- ing dark layer in center. Fig Cake. — IV2 cups sugar, hi cup butter, % cup sweet milk. IMi cups flour, V4 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, hi cup corn- starch, whites C eggs. Put together as for corn- starch cake, and bake in 2 shallow oblong pans in a quick oven. Put together with fig filling (see Cake Fillings). French Cake. — \hi cups butter, 2 cups sugar, 12 eggs, 1 quart flour, V2 teaspoon Roj^al Bak- ing Powder, 1 gill each of cream, wine, and brandy, 20 drops each extract bitter almonds and nutmeg, 1% cups raisins, stoned, % cup almonds, blanched, 1 cup chopped citron
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