Marble Cake
From The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book, 1921
Recipe combines both light and dark cake mixtures.
Presented as published in 1921. 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 Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book (1921), page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
1 cup of molasses ; % cup butter ; 1 cup of sugar ; 2 eggs; 2 teaspooufuls of vinegar; 2 teaspoonfuls of soda; 14 teaspoonful each of cloves, allspice and cin- namon ; i/o CUP °i strong coffee ; flour to make a stiff dough. Mix all except molasses. Heat molasses and mix in spices, when cool mix all together and bake in quick oven. MRS. H. CORDES. Spice Cake. (Layer of Loaf Cake.) 1% cups sugar; 1 cup butter; 1 teaspoonful of all- spice ; 1 cup raisins ; 1 teaspoonful of cinnamon ; 1 cup sour milk; 1 teaspoonful of nutmeg; 3 cupfuls of flour; 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder; 3 eggs. This cake may also be made in three layers. MRS. MAX SCHOENEWOLF. Loaf Sponge Cake. 6 eggs; 1 cup boiling water; 14 cup cornstarch; y2 teaspoon lemon extract; 2 cups sugar; 2% cups flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder. Beat the yolks of the eggs very light, beating the sugar in gradually. Add the beaten whites of the eggs and the boiling water. Beat in very lightly the flour, cornstarch, and baking powder well sifted together. Flavor. Bake in a loaf pan in a moderate oven. MRS. FELIX W. MAIER, Snow Cake. 1 cup butter ; 2 cups sugar ; 1 cup cornstarch ; 2 cups flour; whites of 7 eggs; 1 cup cream; 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. — 140 — Cream the butter and sugar, add cornstarch and the cream, then the flour sifted two or three times with the powder. Beat the whites very stiff and fold into the batter, beating as little as possible after adding eggs. Flavor with lemon extract. MRS. A. D. STAHL. Gold Cake. Cream together 1 cup sugar and % cups butter, add 1 whole egg and the yolks of 5 well beaten eggs, then y2 cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 2 cups of flour into which 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder has been sifted. Bake in moderate oven. ELLA NAUWALD SCHAEFER. Chocolate Cake. iy2 cups sugar y2 cup butter; 2 eggs; y2 CUP cocoa ; y2 cup hot water ; 2 cups flour ; y2 cup sour milk; 1 teaspoon soda; 1 teaspoon vanilla. MRS.EMIL KOLMEIER. Lunch Cake. 1 cup sugar; y2 cup butter; 1 cup sour milk; 2 cups flour; 1 egg; 1 teaspoon soda; 2 tablespoons molasses ; 1 teaspoon cinnamon ; y2 teaspoon nutmeg ; y2 teaspoon cloves and fruit. MRS. WM. KALLENBERG. Poor Man's Cake. (Without Eggs. ) 2 cups sugar, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 cups sour milk, 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 1 cup raisins, a little nutmeg, 1 cup nuts, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon soda, 3 cups flour. Bake in shallow bread pan. MRS. LEWIS K. SMITH. — 141 — Marble Cake. — Light. 1 cup of white sugar, y2 cup of butter, y2 cup of milk, whites of 3 eggs, 2 cups of prepared flour. Dark. Y2 cup of brown sugar, 14 CUP butter, y2 cup mo- lasses, 14 cup milk, y2 nutmeg, 1 teaspooiiful cinnamon, Y2 teaspoonful allspice, y2 teaspooiiful soda, 2 cups flour, yolks of 3 eggs
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