Hannali's Tea Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cupfuls butter
• juice of 1 lemon
• 3 cupfuls brown sugar
• 4^4 cupfuls flour
• 5 eggs
• 1 teaspoonful soda
• 1 cupful milk
• 1/4 teaspoonful salt
• speck of salt
• 1 pound raisins
• % teaspoonful vanilla
• 1 teaspoonful nutmeg
• 1 teaspoonful chopped citron

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter, add the sugar and beat until light.

2. 2

   Then stir in the beaten egg yolks and the grated lemon rind.

3. 3

   Sift the flour, salt and soda together and add this mixture alternately with the milk.

4. 4

   Then add the nutmeg, vanilla, lemon juice, chopped raisins and the citron slightly floured and fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.

5. 5

   Bake in two loaves and ice with a white icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hannali's Tea Cake 2 cupfuls butter juice of 1 lemon 3 cupfuls brown sugar 4^4 cupfuls flour 5 eggs 1 teaspoonful soda 1 cupful milk 1/4 teaspoonful salt grated rind of 1 lemon 1 pound raisins % teaspoonful vanilla 1 teaspoonful nutmeg 1 teaspoonful chopped citron Cream the butter, add the sugar and beat until light. Then stir in the beaten egg yolks and the grated lemon rind. Sift the flour, salt and soda together and add this mixture alter- nately wdth the milk. Then add the nutmeg, vanilla, lemon juice, chopped raisins and the citron slightly floured and fold in the stififly beaten egg whites. Bake in two loaves and ice with a white icing. Angel Food 1 cupful egg whites % teaspoonful cream of tartar 1 cupful sugar % teaspoonful vanilla 1 cupful flour speck of salt

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