Hickory Nut Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup butter
• 4 cups flour
• 5 eggs
• 2 teaspoons baking-powder
• One pint hickory nut meats cut fine, sprinkled with flour and rolled.

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients together and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hickory Nut Cake. a cups sugar i cup milk 1 cup butter 4 cups flour 5 eggs 2 teaspoons baking-powder One pint hickory nut meats cut fine, sprinkled with flour and rolled. Rich and excellent. The Queen Cook Book 197 Fig Layer Cake. For the cake: 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla }i cup butter i egg, and yolks of 2 2 cups flour ^ cup milk 2 teaspoons baking-powder For Fig Paste. % cup water i cup sugar 8 figs I egg, the white Bake the cake in three layers. Boil the water and sugar till a little brittle when you string it in cold air; then take the sugar from the stove, cool a little, beat the white to a stiff froth and add to it, chop the figs very fine, and add gradually. Spread the paste on top of each cake and sides, if you wish. It (the cake) may need more flour. Plain Loaf Cake. Very nice. 1 % pounds brown sugar i J^ pounds butter ^ pint of yeast i pint milk 2 pounds raisins i teaspoon each cinamon 3 eggs and cloves 3 pounds flour This measures three quarts sifted; well heaped of flour, one pint rounded of butter, one quart of sugar. Stir butter and sugar to a cream, warm the milk and stir with the yeast in flour, let rise over night, saving out one cup of flour to add next morning with the other ingredients, beaten eggs and floured raisins. Put in pans and let rise forty minutes. This recipe makes three loaves. Bake in moderate ovea. I9S The Queen Cook Book Pound Cake. 21 cups sugar lo egg? I ^ cups butter Flavor as you like 4 cups flour This is very rich and fine, and needs to be made and baked in a skilfuU manner. One teaspoon bak- ing-powder is surer of being light and a tube in center of baking pen. Can bake it in one large loaf, or two smaller ones. Can flavor with one tablespoon necta- rine of orange flower water. Cup Cake. 1 cup butter 3 cups flour 2 cups sugar

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