Jelly Cake

Ingredients

• one and one-half cups of sugar
• one-half of butter
• one-half of sweet milk
• two and one-half of flour
• three eggs

Method

1. 1

   Beat whites and yolks separately, then add baking powder.

2. 2

   Prepare jelly with one cup of sugar, one egg, lemon rind and juice, one tablespoon of water, and one teaspoon of flour; boil in a kettle of boiling water.

3. 3

   Assemble cake with jelly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 138. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

JELLY CAKE. Mrs. P. B. Brown. One cup butter, two cups sugar, three cups flour, four eggs ; stir the sugar and butter to a cream, then add the yolks of the eggs, and lastly the beaten whites and flour. Have ready the jelly, made as follows: One grated apple, the grated rind and juice of one lemon, one cup sugar and one egg; boil until it jellies, stirring constantly ; cool before using. Bake your cake in jelly-cake pans, or in thin layers, putting the jelly between each layer as in ordinary jelly cake. JELLY CAKE. Mrs. John Edwards. One and one-half cups of sugar, one-half of butter, one- half of sweet milk, two and one-half of flour, three eggs

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