Marble Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups granulated sugar
• one-half cup (scant) of butter
• yolks of three eggs
• one cup sweet milk
• two teaspoons cream of tartar
• one-half teaspoon of salt
• three cups flour
• one teaspoon soda
• one cup raisins
• one-half cup currants
• one teaspoon cinnamon
• one-half teaspoon allspice
• one-half teaspoon grated nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Mix ingredients and layer in a pan, alternating dark and light batter.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The National home cook book (1900), page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

r, one-half teaspoon salt, two rounding tea- spoons baking powder... Beat the butter ‘and sugar, add lem- on rind, then eggs well beaten, milk and flour with the salt and baking powder. Bake about 40 minutes in a moderate oven and cover with lemon frosting. This will stay moist almost a week. This recipe will make a large loaf and a smaller one. LOG CABIN CAKE—-Two cups granulated sugar, two cups flour, one-half cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three tea- | — spoons baking powder, one teaspoon lemon flavoring, three _ - eggs well beaten. Bake and when ready to serve arrange _ finger strips of the cake and place them log cabin fashion on pretty plates. Fill the center with sweetened strawber- ~ ries. Place spoonful of whipped cream on them, leaving the ~ ~eake and berries to show in small places. MACAROONS (Cocoanut)—One egg (well beaten), one- Ralf cup sugar, two-thirds cup cocoanut, one cup rolled oats. eae into small, round cakes and bake in a quick oven un- il crisp. MACAROONS (Hickorynut)—Whites of six eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Stir in lightly two cupfuls of pulverized Wiizar. two tablespoonfuls of flour, one-half teaspoon of bak- | zs Owder, one-fourth teaspoon of cream of tartar, four ils of chopped hickorynut meats. Drop on oiled paper ced in shallow tin and bake slowly. ; MARGUERITES—Beat the whites of two eggs so stiff Y.at they will adhere to the plate when turned upside down, -hen place 1%-cupfuls of granulated sugar on the stove, add - enough hot water just to dissolve it, and let it boil until it will click against’ a glass when tried in cold water, then. = pour it into the white of the eggs, beating fast; add a little —— vanilla, and half a pound of English walnuts chopped fine; ~~ then spread quickly on unsalted crackers. Place on a pan, and brown in a hot oven; use the oblong in preference to the Square crackers. MARBLE CAKE—Two cups granulated sugar, one-half cup (scant) of butter. (lard will do if necessary) beaten to= — gether; yolks of three eggs next, one cup sweet milk added : next; put into the milk two teaspoons cream of tartar, next add a half teaspoon of. salt, three cups flour in which mix well one teaspoon soda; then add whites of the eggs. Take one-half of this and put into it one cup ‘raisins, one-half eup currants chopped fine, one teaspoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon allspice, one- -half teaspoon grated nutm

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