Imperial Cake

Ingredients

• One pound butter
• one of sugar
• one pound flour
• nine eggs
• one and a quarter pounds almonds
• half pound citron
• half pound raisins
• tea-spoon soda
• the grated rind and juice of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter and sugar, add eggs and flour, then mix in the fruit and nuts.

2. 2

   Bake until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

half pound citron, shaved fine; beat butter to a -. cream, add sugar gradually, then the well- beaken yolks; stir all till — very light, and add the chopped almonds; beat the whites stiff and add gently with the flour; take a little more fiour and sprinkle over the raisins and citron, then put in the cake-pan, first a layer of cake batter, then a layer of raisins’ and citrou, then cake, and so on ti. all is used, finishing off with a layer of cake. Bake in a moderate » oven two hours.—Mary Wilcox, Dalton. A ¢ Harp-Money Cake. Gold Part.—Yolks of eight eggs, scant cup butter, two of sugar, four of flour, one of sour milk, tea-spoon soda, table-spoon corn starch ; flavor with lemon and vanilla. | one Part.—Two cups sugar, one of butter, four (scant) of flour, one of sour milk, tea-spoon soda, table-spoon corn starch, whites of © eight eggs; flavor with almond or peach. Put in pan, alternately, one spoonful of gold and one of silver.—Miss Emma, Fisher. : Oup Hickory Cake. | One cup ‘sugar, half cup butter, three eggs beaten well together, ee vel tea-spoon soda stirred in half cup sour milk, two small cups on) a Are th | CAKE-MAKING. : flour; flavor with lemon, pour in small dripping-pan, bake half an hour, and cut in squares. This cake is always elected for a ‘‘ second term.”—Miss Flora Ziegler, Columbus. | Hickory-Nut CAKE. | Two cups sugar, one of milk, two-thirds cup butter, three of flour, three eggs, two tea-spoons baking-powder, a cup nut-kernels cut fine. ‘Tried, and not found wanting. —Mrs. Judge West, Bellefontawne. Hickory-NuT CAKE. A cup butter, two of sugar, three of flour, one of sweet milk, » whites of seven and yolks of two eggs, a tea-spoon soda, two of cream tartar, one pint hickory-nut meats rolled and sprinkled with flour; beat the whites to a stiff froth. Rich and excellent.—Mrs, A. B. Morey. IMPERIAL Gus One pound butter and one of sugar beaten to a cream, one pound flour, the grated rind and juice of a lemon, nine eggs, one and a quarter pounds almonds before they are cracked, half pound citron, half pound raisins

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.