Hickory Nut Cake

Ingredients

• One cup butter
• two cups sugar
• three cups flour
• four eggs
• one cup raisins
• two cups nuts
• one cup water
• three teaspoons baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pennsylvania German cook book (1902) by Keller, J. A. Mrs, page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HICKORY NUT CAKE. One cup butter, two cups sugar, three cups flour, four eggs, one cup raisins, two cups nuts, one cup water, three tea¬ spoons baking powder. .Mrs. G. E. Holbien, Manistique, Mich. HICKORY NUT LAYER CAKE. One cup sugar, one half-cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, one and one- half cups flour, two eggs, one tea.spoon baking powder. (Filling.) One cup sugar, one cup sweet cream, one cup of nuts chopped fine, put on the stove, boil five minutes, take off and stir until nearlv * • cool, put between layers and on top. Mrs. Mary Ream. SPICE CAKE NO. 1. Four eggs, leaving out the whites of two for frosting, two cups sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sour milk, one teasp<N>n stMla stirred in the milk, two teasiioons cinnamon, one teaspoon cloves, one-half nutmeg, two cups flour. Mrs. Clara Norton, Sulphur Springs. THR PKNySYIiVANIA (JERMANCOOK POOR. SPICE CAKE NO. 2. One cup molasses, one cup sugar and one-half cup butter, one-half cup sour milk, two eggs, one-half teaspoon soda, one-half teaspoon each cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, two and one-half cups flour. Mrs. G. E. IIolhien. OLD FASHIONED STIR CAKE. One cup sugar, one egg, one cup soui cream, one teaspoon soda, flour to make a soft batter, stir all together and bake. Mrs. S K. Culp. CHOCOLATE CAKE. One cup butter, three cups brown sugar, one cup sweet milk, four cups flour, yolks of seven eggs, nine tablespoons Kaker’s chocolate grated, three teaspoons baking powder

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