Loaf Cake

Ingredients

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

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LOAF CAKE, Two cups sugar, half-cup butter, three eggs, one cup sweet milk, two teaspoons baking powder, and three cupe of flour. LEMON CAKE. One and a-half cups of sugar, one of butter, two and a-half cups flour, five eggs (beaten separately), four tea- spoonfuls of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half teaspoonful of soda. JELLY FOR THE CAKE, One coffee cup of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter, two eggs, and the juice of two lemons; beat all together, and boil until of the consistency of jelly. CHEAP COOKIES. One cup of butter, one cup of brown sugar, one tea- spoonful of soda, three eggs, flour enough to roll out thin. Piz CREAM PUFES. Five eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, one and a-half cups each of sugar and sifted flour, two teaspoons baking powder in the flour; bake in teacups, filling about half full. The cream is prepared by placing a small tin pail containing a pint of sweet milk in a kettle of boiling ~ ‘ - a " ‘ + a 2 SG me i 2 aN sel fan ~ ie ny ! iva es 196 -- DORA'S COOK. BOOK. water ; beat the whites and yolks of two eggs separately ; stir in milk while boiling, a half cup sugar, a large table- spoon corn-starch dissolved in a little sweet milk, then the beaten yolks, and a piece of butter the’size of an egg ; flavor with lemon. When done cut the cakes open, put in a spoonful of the cream, place together again, roll in the whites, and then in coarse white sugar. SNOWBALLS. Pour half a pint of boiling water over a cup butter, and while hot stir in two cups flour. When the whole is very smooth and thoroughly scalded, set away to cool. When cold break in five eggs, stir until perfectly mixed, then add one-fourth teaspoon soda, butter a pan, drop in the mixture, a teaspoon in a place, and bake in a quick oven. When the cakes are done they will be hollow, and the top must be sliced off, the inside filled with cream, and the top replaced. CREAM FOR INSIDE. One pint rich milk, half cup flour, one cup sugar, and two eggs, stirred together and heated till of the consist- ency of cream; flavor with vanilla. * CRULLIES. T'wo cups sour cream, one cup sugar, two eggs, one tea- spoon soda, one nutmeg. Cut in strips and fry in hot — ~~ dard, | — CARES es 197 JELLY CAKE. One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, four eggs, Che cups flour, one-half cup sour milk, and one teaspoonful of soda. Bake in four layers. SOFT GINGERBREAD. One and a-half cups of molasses, half cup brown sugar, half cup butter, half cup sweet milk, one teaspoon soda, ‘one teaspoon allspice, one teaspoon ginger; mix all to- gether thoroughly, add three cups sifted flour and bake in shallow tins. PEPPER-NUTS. One pound sugar, five eggs, half pound butter, half teacup milk, two teaspoons baking powder, flour enough to roll. LEMON SNAPS. One coffee cup sugar, two-thirds cup butter, half tea- spoon soda dissolved in two teaspoons hot water, flour enough to roll thin ; flavor with lemon. SEED CAKE. Mix a pound and a half of flour and a pound brown sugar, eight eggs beaten separately, an ounce of seeds to ‘the taste, two spoonfuls of yeast, and the same of milk and water. : WEDDING CAKE, Fifty eggs, five pounds sugar, five pounds flour, five pounds butter, fifteen pounds raisins, three pounds citron, & - th 198 -“DORA’S COOK BOOK. ten pounds currants, one pint brandy, one-fourth ounce cloves, one ounce cinnamon, four ounces of mace, four ounces nutmeg. This makes forty-three pounds, and keeps twenty years. ALMOND CAKE. Two cups sugar, three-fourths cup butter, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour, and one cup of cornstarch well mixed, whites of six eggs, two teaspoons cream of tartar in the flour, one teaspoon soda in the milk ; cream the butter and sugar, add milk gradually, then the whites of eggs together with the flour, and bake in jelly-tins. To put between layers, take two pounds almonds, blanch and pound fine in a mortar (or fine cloth will do) beat whites and yolks of two eggs together lightly, add a cup and a-half sugar, then the almonds with a tablespoon vanilla. EXCELLENT RICE CAKE. One-half pound rice flour, six eggs, one-half pound white sugar. Beat all together for half an hour. BUTTERMILK CAKE, One cup butter, two cups buttermilk, three cups sugar, | four eggs, five cups flour, soda enough to swéeten the but- termilk. COFFEE CAKE. Three cups of flour

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.