Lemon Jelly Cake

Ingredients

• one and one-half cups sugar
• one-half cup butter
• two and one-half cups flour
• two teaspoons baking powder
• three eggs
• one-half cup milk

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar and butter.

2. 2

   Mix flour and baking powder.

3. 3

   Combine beaten eggs with milk.

4. 4

   Add flour and milk alternately to butter mixture.

5. 5

   Bake in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Natchez recipes (1900), page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Two and one-half cups flour, one and one-half cups sugar, two ounces chocolate ( or four tablespoons cocoa ) , two eggs, one lump butter, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon baking powder, vanilla extract. Cook in ^ quick oven. LEMON MUFFIN CAKES Three-fourths cup sugar, one-half cup butter, two egg yolks, one cup flour, one-fourth cup milk, one-half teaspoon vanilla, one-half teaspoon lemon juice, one teaspoon baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add yolks, one at a time. Add flour and milk alternately. Beat in stiff whites. Bake in greased muffin tins in moderate oven. NUT CAKES Tv^o sticks butter, one cup sugar creamed. Add one egg yolk. Mix two cups flour and two teaspoons cinnamon and work into butter mixture. Spread batter with knife in pan or on cooky sheet. Cover top with one unbeaten egg white. Cover thickly with nuts, press into batter lightly. Cook in slow oven until pecans are brown. Cut in squares while hot. Leave in pan to cool. LEMON JELLY CAKE One and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup butter, cream well together. Mix tv^o and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder. Mix three eggs well beaten, to one-half cup milk

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