Jam Cake

Ingredients

• One-half cup butter
• one cup sugar
• three eggs
• five tablespoons sour milk
• two heaping cups of flour
• one teaspoon soda
• one teaspoon cinnamon
• one-half teaspoon cloves
• one cup jam

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs (save out the white of one for icing), then sour milk.

2. 2

   Mix in flour, soda, cinnamon, and cloves.

3. 3

   Stir in jam last.

4. 4

   This makes two good layers, with white icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

JAM CAKE. Mrs. E. H. Williams, 120 East Fern avenue, Redlands, Cal.— One- half cup butter, one cup sugar, three eggs, (save out the white of one for icing,) five tablespoons sour milk, two heaping cups of flour, one teaspoon soda ,one teaspoon cinna- mon, one-half teaspoon cloves, one cup jam, stirred in the last thing. Strawberry jam is the best to use. This makes two good lay- ers, with white icing. NO. 16. KINDERGARTEN CAKE. Mrs. Clara Moulton, Loara, Cal.— Take one pint of sponge in morning before kneading, one cup sugar, three-quarter cup butter, (small,) one teaspoonful ground cinnamon, two eggs, one teacup chopped • raisins, three-quarter teacup flour; beat it up before putting in flour and raisins and beat it good afterwards. Let it raise a long time, then bake it. Flour raisins so they won't sink. Add saleratus before raisins are put in. COOKING AND OTHER RECIPES. 45 NO. 17. LAYER CAKE. Mrs. J. J. Brong- hall, Ocean Park, Cal.— Take scant two cups granulated sugar, which has been sifted twice, add a good one-half cup butter

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