Half Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1.5 cups flour
• 3.5 tsp. baking powder
• 5 eggs
• 1.33 cup sugar
• 0.5 tsp. mace
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter thoroughly, add flour, baking powder and mace sifted together previously.

2. 2

   Beat well.

3. 3

   Select five eggs of uniform size.

4. 4

   Beat separately.

5. 5

   When yolks are beaten thick and lemon colored, add sugar.

6. 6

   Combine mixtures beating continuously.

7. 7

   Beat whites of egg until stiff and dry, then fold into.

8. 8

   Continue beating until mixture resembles thick hard sauce.

9. 9

   Bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Carolina cookery from Quaker kitchens (1924) by High Point Friends Meeting. Woman's Auxiliary, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 tsp. vanilla 1 tsp. baking powder Cream butter and sugar together, add beaten whites ef eggs, milk and flour, then spices, then fruits rolled in flour. —Mrs. G. H. Kearns. SPICE CAKE 2 cups brown sugar 1 cup butter 1 cup buttermilk 3 cups flour 4 eggs 1% tbs. cinnamon 1% tbs. cloves 1 tsp. allspice Nutmeg 1 tsp. vanilla 1 tsp. soda dissolved in a little warm water Put together with boiling icing. —Mrs. G. H. Kearns. SPONGE CAKE (Easy, inexpensive and sure). 38 eggs 3 soupspoonfuls water 1 cup sugar 1 cup sifted flour Beat the egg whites stiff and dry, add half the sugar at intervals beating all the time. Beat egg yolks and water until stiff and lemon colored, then add half the sugar gradually beating all the time. L Spi. CAROLINA COOKERY FROM QUAKER KITCHENS Unite the mixtures, still beating and lastly fold in the flour. Bake in a well greased and floured pan, 45 minutes in a slow oven. —Miss Mary S. Paige GINGERBREAD 1-3 cup Crisco % tsp. salt 4% cup sugar 1 tbs. ginger % cup molasses 1 tsp. cinnamon 2 ozs. chocolate, melted % tsp. cloves 1 cup thick sour cream 1 tsp. soda 2 cups flour 1 tsp. baking powder Cream Crisco, beat in sugar, molasses, chocolate and milk, then add other ingredients which have been previously well sifted together. : —Mrs. J. J. Haworth. SCRIPTURE CAKE 4 1-2 cups 1st Kings, Chap. 4, 22nd verse; 1 cup Judges, Chap. 5, verse 25, last clause; 2 cups Jeremiah, Chap. 6, verse 20; 2 cups Ist. Samuel, Chap. 30, verse 12; 2 cups Nahum, Chap. 3, verse 12; 2 cups Numbers, Chap. 17, verse 8; 2 tablespoons 1st Samuel, Chap. 14, verse 25; a pinch of Leviticus, Chap. 2, verse 13; 6 of Jeremiah, Chap. 17, verse 11; 1-2 cup Judges, Chap, 4, verse 19, last clause; 2 teaspoons Amos, Chap. 4, verse 5. Season to taste with 2nd Chronicles, Chap. 9, verse 9. —Mrs. Arthur Lyon. HALF POUND CAKE 1 cup butter Y% tsp. mace 1% cups flour 5 eggs 3% tsp. baking powder 11-3 cup sugar

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