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Lightning Cake

From The bride's cook book, 1915

Serves 8

Presented as published in 1915. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • One-half cup barley
  • one-half cup wheat flour
  • one cup sugar
  • one level teaspoonfui baking powder
  • one-half cup melted butter
  • break into it two eggs
  • fill up remainder of cup with milk
  • one-half teaspoonfui flavoring

Method

  1. Sift all dry ingredients together.

  2. Mix melted butter, eggs, and milk, then pour into the flour mixture and beat thoroughly.

  3. Bake in a moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

276Calories
3 gProtein
42 gCarbs
12 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The bride's cook book (1915) by Edgar William Briggs, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lightning Cake One-half cup barley, one-half cup wheat flour, one cup sugar, one level teaspoonfui baking powder. Sift all together. Take one-half cup melted butter, break into it two eggs and fill up remainder of cup with milk. Pour this into the flour, sugar and baking powder mixture, and beat thor- oughly, one-half teaspoonfui flavoring

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