Harrison Cake

Ingredients

• Four eggs
• two cups sugar
• one half cup butter
• one cup sweet milk
• three cups flour
• two large teaspoons baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar, beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, mix together and flavor with vanilla.

2. 2

   Bake as a layer or loaf.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pennsylvania German cook book (1902) by Keller, J. A. Mrs, page 1. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HARRISON CAKE. Four eggs, two cups sugar, one half cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three cups rtour, two large teas|MK)ns baking powder, (Layer or loaf.) Soft icing. A lump of butter the size of an egg creamed with one cup pulverized sugar, beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, mix to¬ gether and flavor with vanilla. Lillian K. Grove, Hanover, Pa. WASHINGTON CAKE. LAYER OR IX)AK. One and one half cups sugar, one half cup butter, three-fourths cup sweet milk, three eggs, two teaspoons baking powder, two cups flour. Mr.^^. Clara Norton, Sulphur Springs. Ohio. MADISON CAKE. Fourteen ounces flour, six ounces but¬ ter, ten ounces sugar, three eggs, three- fourths cup sweet milk, one p<>und cur¬ rants, two teasjMMULs baking powder, flour the currants. A nice cake for the holidays in place of a fruit cake. Lillian K. Grove, Hanover, Pa. SURPRISE CAKE. One heaping cup granulated sugar, one half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, three eggs, three cui>s flour, three even teas|K)ons baking imwder, flavor with vanilla or lemon. Margaret M. Miller, Hanover, Pa. EMMA CAKE. LAVER OR U)AK. One and one-half cui>s sugar, (Uie-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, two teiLsiHions baking iM>wder, Lmr eggs, two cups flour. Cream butter and sugar, beat the yolks of eggs and stir into the milk, flour and baking iiowder, then the beaten whites of eggs, flavor to taste. Mrs. Mary Ream, Hartville, Ohio. YELLOW CAKE. Yolks of four eggs well beaten, two cups sugar, one-half cup butter, three tea- sp(Huis baking pow’der, one cup cold water, three cups flour

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