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Loaf Cake
From The Portland Woman's Exchange Cook Book, 1913
Serves 2
Presented as published in 1913. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The Portland Woman's Exchange Cook Book (1913) by Portland Woman's Exchange (Or.), page 75. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Loaf Cake. Yi cup butter. 1 cup sugar. 2 eggs. Yi cup milk. \Yi cups flour. XYi teaspoons baking powder. 1 teaspoon cornstarch. Yi teaspoon vanilla or lemon flavoring. Afrs. £. C. Shevlin. Maine Tea Cakes. 1 lb. flour. 14 lb. sugar. Yz lb. butter. Yolks of 4 eggs. Grated rind of 1 lemon. Mix all together, forming a paste. Roll out, cut into squares, IJ/2 or 2 inches across. Varnish squares with yolks of egg. Dip in powdered sugar. Bake on plates covered with flour. Mrs. ]. G. Gauld. Marmalade Cake. 1 cup sugar. Yi cup butter. XYi cups sifted flour. XYi level teaspoons baking powder. 2 eggs. Yi cup milk. A little salt. 1 small glass orange marmalade. Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time, ana beat 5 minutes each, then other ingredients, the marmalade last. Bake in a loaf in slow oven. Mrs. S. T. Hamilton. CAKES .205 Mocha Cake. 3 eggs. 1 cup and 1 tablespoon flour. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 4 tablespoons water. 1 tablespoon Turkish essence of coffee. y^ cup sugar. Beat eggs separately. To beaten yolks add sugar, then flour sifted with baking powder; water and coffee essence. Last fold in whites beaten stiff. Bake in layers in slow oven. Filling for Mocha Cake, 1 pint of whipping cream. 2 tablespoons sugar. 2 tablespoons coffee essence. Mrs. L. H. Tarpley. One Egg Cake. Sometimes called Poor Man's Cake. 1 egg. Piece of butter size of an egg. I cup sugar. J/2 cup milk. lJ/2 cups sifted flour. J/2 teaspoon soda in milk. 1 teaspoon cream of tartar in flour. 1 teaspoon vanilla. Bake in shallow pan. This cake is inexpensive and quickly mixed and baked and is best served warm with a little butter. It is better when not too carefully mixed, and should not be beaten but just stirred thoroughly. Mrs. Philip C. Schuyler. Orange Cake. J4 cup butter. 1 cup sugar. Yi cup milk. 2 eggs. 206 PORTLAND WOMAN'S EXCHANGE COOK BOOK lJ/2 cups flour.
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