Malaga Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups of sugar
• half a cup of butter
• half a cup of sweet milk
• three cups of flour
• three teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• whites of seven eggs
• whites of three eggs
• one coffee cup of seeded and chopped raisins
• two teaspoonfuls of lemon extract

Method

1. 1

   Beat to a cream sugar and butter, add milk, mix flour with baking powder, beat egg whites to a froth, stir all together and flavor with lemon; bake in sheets.

2. 2

   For filling: Beat whites of three eggs with sugar, add raisins and lemon extract, spread between the cake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 370. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, whites of six eggs ; bake in layers. CRYSTAL ALMOND CAKE. One and one-half cups sugar, half-cup butter, four eggs, half-cup milk, two cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder; bake in sheets. Icing — whites of three eggs beaten stiff, three tablespoonfuls white sugar, one cup chopped nut meats ; flavor to taste and put these between and on top of layers. NEAPOLITAN CAKE. Black : Take one cup butter, two cups brown sugar, one cup molasses, one cup strong coffee, four and a half cups sifted flour, four eggs, two teaspoonfuls of soda, two of cinnamon, two of cloves, one of mace, one pound raisins, one of currants, and a quarter of a pound of citron. White : One cup butter, four cups white sugar, two cups sweet milk, two cups corn starch mixed with four and a half cups of sifted flour, whites of eight eggs, two tablespoonfuls of baking powder, one-half teaspoonful extract of bitter almonds. Bake the cakes in round jelly pans with straight edges ; the loaves should be one and a half inches in thickness after baking. When the cake is cold, each black loaf should be spread with a thick coating of lemon and sugar, made as 436 CAKE. follows: The white of one egg, thoroughly beaten, the grated rind of two and the juice of three lemons ; powdered sugar enough to make a thick frosting; lay a white loaf on each black one and frost as you would any other cake. FROSTED RAISIN CAKE. One cup sugar, one of flour, three eggs, three tablespoonfuls of cold water, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, a piece of butter as large as a walnut ; flavor and bake in layers. For frosting — White of one egg beaten to a stiff froth, two-thirds of a cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of water ; put in a dish and set in a kettle of boiling water ; cook ten or fifteen minutes, but do not let it get stiff ; have ready a large teacup of stoned raisins chopped very fine ; stir in the frosting and put between and on the top of layers. MALAGA CAKE. Two cups of sugar and half .a cup of butter; beat to a cream; add half a cup of sweet milk ; mix three cups of flour with three teaspoon- fuls of baking powder ; beat the whites of seven eggs to a froth ; stir all together and flavor with lemon ; bake in sheets. Filling — Whites of three eggs beaten with sugar as for frosting ; save out enough for the top of the cake ; add one coffee cup of seeded and chopped raisins, two teaspoonfuls of lemon extract

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