Jelly Cake

Ingredients

• One cup of butter
• two cups of sugar
• four eggs
• six cups flour
• one-half cup sour milk
• one teaspoonful of soda

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake in four layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

JELLY CAKE. One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, four eggs, Che cups flour, one-half cup sour milk, and one teaspoonful of soda. Bake in four layers. SOFT GINGERBREAD. One and a-half cups of molasses, half cup brown sugar, half cup butter, half cup sweet milk, one teaspoon soda, ‘one teaspoon allspice, one teaspoon ginger; mix all to- gether thoroughly, add three cups sifted flour and bake in shallow tins. PEPPER-NUTS. One pound sugar, five eggs, half pound butter, half teacup milk, two teaspoons baking powder, flour enough to roll. LEMON SNAPS. One coffee cup sugar, two-thirds cup butter, half tea- spoon soda dissolved in two teaspoons hot water, flour enough to roll thin ; flavor with lemon. SEED CAKE. Mix a pound and a half of flour and a pound brown sugar, eight eggs beaten separately, an ounce of seeds to ‘the taste, two spoonfuls of yeast, and the same of milk and water. : WEDDING CAKE, Fifty eggs, five pounds sugar, five pounds flour, five pounds butter, fifteen pounds raisins, three pounds citron, & - th 198 -“DORA’S COOK BOOK. ten pounds currants, one pint brandy, one-fourth ounce cloves, one ounce cinnamon, four ounces of mace, four ounces nutmeg. This makes forty-three pounds, and keeps twenty years. ALMOND CAKE. Two cups sugar, three-fourths cup butter, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour, and one cup of cornstarch well mixed, whites of six eggs, two teaspoons cream of tartar in the flour, one teaspoon soda in the milk ; cream the butter and sugar, add milk gradually, then the whites of eggs together with the flour, and bake in jelly-tins. To put between layers, take two pounds almonds, blanch and pound fine in a mortar (or fine cloth will do) beat whites and yolks of two eggs together lightly, add a cup and a-half sugar, then the almonds with a tablespoon vanilla. EXCELLENT RICE CAKE. One-half pound rice flour, six eggs, one-half pound white sugar. Beat all together for half an hour. BUTTERMILK CAKE, One cup butter, two cups buttermilk, three cups sugar, | four eggs, five cups flour

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