Hickory-Nut Cake

Ingredients

• One cup meats (broken)
• one and one-half of sugar
• one-half of butter
• two of flour
• three-fourths of sweet milk
• two teaspoons baking powder
• the whites of four eggs well beaten

Method

1. 1

   Add the meats last.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 135. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

One cup meats (broken), one and one-half of sugar, one-half of butter, two of flour, three-fourths of sweet milk, two teaspoons baking powder, the whites of four eggs well beaten ; add the meats last. HICKOEY-NUT CAKE. Mrs. C. C. Stratton, Evanston. Two cups pulverized sugar, one cup butter, one cup new milk, four cups sifted flour (winter wheat flour), whites of eight eggs, one and one-half cups hickory-nut meats, one tablespoon vanilla, three heaping teaspoons baking powder; put the baking powder into the flour, and stir well before using, beat and add the eggs the last ; bake slowly one hour. HiCKOEY-NUT CAKE. Nellie Gould. Not quite a cup of butter, one and one-half cups sugar, three-fourths cup sweet milk, three cups flour, Mi THE HOME COOK BOOK. three teaspoons baking powder, v/hites of four eggs, one cup hickory-nuts. NUT CAKE. Mrs. Taylor, Fort Wayne. Two and a half cups sugar, one of butter, three and a half of flour, one of sweet milk, five eggs, one pound stoned raisins, one-half pound of citron, one-half of a lemon peel, one-half of an orange peel, one pint hickory, nut meats, one nutmeg, two teaspoons baking powder. COCOANUT CAKE. Mrs. Bartlett. One pound of sugar; one pound of flour; one pound of butter; whites of twelve eggs; one cocoanut ; two- thirds teaspoonful soda ; half cup of wine. WHITE CUP CAKE. Mrs. A. S. Ewing. Two cups of sugar, one-half of butter, four ot flour, one of sweet cream, one teaspoon soda dissolved in the cream, two teaspoons cream tartar mixed through the flour, whites of eight eggs. COMPOSITION CAKE. Mrs. H. F. Waite. Five eggs, four cups sifted flour, two and one-half of sugar, one of butter, one of milk, two teaspoons cream tartar, one of soda. Beat sugar, butter and yolks of eggs a long time, then add milk and part of the flour; with VALUABLE RECIFES. 345 the rest of the flour add the whites, beat very light; raisins or citron, if desired. VANILLA CAKE. A. E. W. One-half cup of butter stirred into one cup of sugar till it is like cream, three eggs, one and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons vanilla ; bake on tins, dropping. EEBECCA'S PLAIN CAKE. Mrs. G. H. L. One cup sugar, two of flour

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