Illinois Cake

Ingredients

• Five eggs
• two cupfuls of sugar
• one cupful of butter
• two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• three cupfuls of flour
• one cupful of milk
• one cupful of sugar
• one cupful of seedless raisins

Method

1. 1

   Mix the cake ingredients and bake.

2. 2

   For the filling, dissolve sugar in water and simmer until it candies.

3. 3

   Chop raisins and stir into the candied sugar.

4. 4

   Beat eggs and stir in, flavoring with vanilla.

5. 5

   Spread as filling between layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 170. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ILLINOIS CAKE. Five eggs, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of butter, two teaspoon- fuls of baking-powder, three cupfuls of flour and one cupful of milk; flavor with vanilla. Filling. — One cupful of sugar and enough water to dissolve the sugar; put in a pan and let it simmer on the stove until it candies. Then chop fine one cupful of seedless raisins. Stir them in the candied sugar, beat two eggs to a froth and, last of all, stir them in; flavor slightly with vanilla. Spread as you would other filling. This makes two small cakes. One-half the amount will be suflicient for most families. Mrs. Minerva Lane. MINNEHAHA CAKE. Take one and one-half cupfuls of granulated sugar, one-quarter of a cupful of butter, one-half cupful of milk, two cupfuls of flour, two tea- spoonfuls of baking-powder, the whites of six eggs beaten thoroughly. For filling use one cupful of stoned raisins, one cupful of hickory nut meats, chopped fine, one cupful of sugar. Cover these with water and boil down until thick enough to spread on cake. Mrs. H. P. Jones. MAPLE LAYER CAKE. Make the above layer cake. For a filling take two cupfuls of maple sugar (shaved), add one cupful of water and boil until it waxes when dropped in cold water. Remove from the fire and add two teaspoonfuls of butter; stir speedily and put between the layers. A delicious cake. Mrs. J. Adem, CAKES, 237 MARSHMALLOW CAKE. Cream together one tablespoonful of butter and one-half cupful of sugar, add the yolk of one e^gg, then one cupful of milk; fold in the beaten white of one e:gg and lastly stir in gradually two cupfuls of flour which has been sifted with two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder

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