French Cake

Name: French Cake
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: One cup and a half of butter; four cups flour; three cups sugar; four eggs; one cup of sour milk; one teaspoonful of soda; juice of half a lemon; rind of a whole one

From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886

Serves 6

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 354. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRENCH CAKE. One cup and a half of butter, four cups flour, three cups sugar, four eggs — always beat yolks and whites of eggs separately — juice of half a lemon and rind of a whole one ; just before putting in oven mix one teaspoonful of soda and the lemon with one cup of sour milk

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