Hickory Nut Cake

Ingredients

• One pound of flour
• 1 pound of butter
• 1 pound of sugar
• 1 1/4 pounds of raisins
• 1 pound of hickory nut meats
• 1 nutmeg grated
• 1/2 tumbler of sherry wine
• 1/2 tumbler of brandy
• 12 eggs beaten separately

Method

1. 1

   Use flour from the pound for flouring the fruit.

2. 2

   Beat well and bake in a greased mold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 141. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

, 1^^ pounds of raisins, 1 nutmeg, 1 wine glass of whisky. Bake about 3 hours in a mold. 236 KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. f Ginger Cake. Two eggs beaten separately, 1 cup of brown sugar, 1 cup of mo- lasses (not too dark), 4 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of soda, pinch of cayenne pepper, 1 heaping tablespoon of ginger, 1 dessertspoon of cinnamon, 1 cup of sour cream or buttermilk. Dissolve soda in the buttermilk and bake in a nlold. Orange Cake. . ^ One pound sugar, 10 eggs, ^ pound flour, 1 orange, 2 lemons. Beat eggs separately. To the yolks and whites of 7 eggs add the sugar and rind of lemons and juice of 1 lemon. To whites of 3 eggs, 1^ pounds of powdered sugar; beat until stiff. Take out enough for icing; to the rest add juice and grated rind of orange. When cake is nearly cold put this between layers and ice. White Fruit Cake. Three coffee cups of granulated sugar, 5 coffee cups flour, 1 cupful butter, cupful sweet milk, I14 pounds blanched almonds^ 1 pound citron, 2 cupfuls grated cocoanut, whites of 12 eggs, 1 tea- spoonful cream of tartar, % teaspoonful soda. Flour fruit, using from that of cake. Mix as usual, and put in a greased and floured mold. Walnut Cake. Two coffee cupfuls granulated sugar, 4 cupfuls flour, 1 cupful butter, 1 teacupful sweet inilk, 4 eggs beaten separately, 2 teaspoon- fuls baking powder. Bake in 3 layers. Filling for Cake. Two heaping pints brown sugar, 1 pint walnut meats, 1 dessert- spoonful butter. Dissolve sugar with a little cold water, add the but- ter and cook slowly 25 minutes. When it strings add the chopped walnut meats. Beat till cold and spread on the cake. Doughnuts. Eggs, 2 yolks, 1 white, 1% scant cupfuls granulated sugar, % cups buttermilk, i^^ teaspoonful soda, 1 tablespoonful butter, nut- meg, cinnamon and salt to taste ; enough flour to make a tolerably soft dough. Queen's Cake. One pound of flour, 1 pound of granulated sugar, 1 pound of raisins, 1/4 <^f a pound of citron, % pound of butter, 6 eggs beaten separately, 1 wine glass of whisky or sherry wine, 1 wine glass of cream, 1 grated nutmeg, 1 teaspoon of baking powder. Flour fruit from the pound of flour. Bake in a greased mold. Hickory Nut Cake. One pound of flour, 1 pound of butter, 1 pound of sugar, 1^ I KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. 237 pounds of raisins, 1 pound of hickory nut meats, 1 nutmeg grated, % tumbler of sherry wine, ^ tumbler of brandy, 12 eggs beaten separately

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