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Lightning Tea Cakes

From Lessons in cooking through preparation of meals, 1912

Serves 2

Variations include adding cocoa or using brown sugar.

Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lessons in cooking through preparation of meals (1912) by Eva Roberta Robinson, page 208. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lightning" Tea Cakes Place the flour sifter in the mixing bowl and put in it I V2 c flour, }i c fine granulated or powdered sugar, 2 t bak- ing powder, 3^ t salt. Sift into the bowl. In the measuring cup, melt 1/1 c butter (or oleo), break in 2 eggs, fill up the cup with milk. Add ^ t flavoring extract

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