Loaf Cake

Ingredients

• Two quarts of sugar
• seven cupfuls of butter
• six quarts of sifted flour
• 6 lbs. of fruit
• one pint of yeast
• eight nutmegs
• twelve eggs
• one quart of milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix half the butter and eggs with milk, flavor, and yeast, and beat thoroughly.

2. 2

   In the evening, add the remainder of the butter, sugar, rest of the eggs, and spices.

3. 3

   Let rise until morning, then add fruit.

4. 4

   Put in deep pans and let rise for half an hour.

5. 5

   Bake for 2-3 hours in a slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Loaf Cake CAKES Marble Cake baking-powder. Add half a cupful of sweet milk and the whites of four eggs. Flavor with extract of almonds. Bake in a greased mould. When cool, ice and ornament with frosting of lilies. Loaf Cake. — Two quarts of sugar, seven cupfuls of butter, six quarts of sifted flour, 6 lbs. of fruit, one pint of yeast, eight nutmegs, mace, twelve eggs, one quart of milk

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