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Loaf Cake
From The Twin-city housewife, 1920
Serves 16
Recipe by Mrs. A. B. Dangerfield.
Presented as published in 1920. 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 Twin-city housewife (1920) by N.C.) International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons. Whatsoever Circle (Winston-Salem, page 62. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
loaf cake. To make the filling: Dissolve three cupfuls of granulated sugar in one cupful of boiling water; cook it until it threads then pour it over the stiffily-beaten whites of three eggs, stirring constantly. To this icing add one cupful of chopped raisins, one cupful of chopped nut meats, pecans preferred, and five figs, cut into very thin strips. With this ice both the top and sides of the cake. Loaf Cake Two cups butter, three cups sugar, six cups flour, six eggs; one-half cup cream, one-half teaspoon soda, one quart raisins, stoned, one cup yeast. Flavor with nutmeg and orange peel
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