Marble Cake

Ingredients

• One cupful of sugar
• One-half cupful of butter
• One-quarter cupful of molasses
• One-half cupful of milk
• One cupful of flour
• Two eggs (yolks)
• One tea-spoonful of baking-powder
• One-half tea-spoonful of cloves
• One-half tea-spoonful of cinnamon
• One-quarter tea-spoonful of grated nutmeg
• Two eggs (whites)

Method

1. 1

   Rub these to a cream, divide the cream into two portions, and use one portion for the dark and the other portion for the light part of the cake.

2. 2

   For the dark part, add to one of the portions of creamed butter and sugar the beaten yolks of the eggs, and then the milk and molasses.

3. 3

   Stir the powder, spice and flour together, add the mixture, and beat thoroughly for three or four minutes.

4. 4

   For the light part, add the milk to the other portion of sugar and butter; then put in the flour, into which the powder has first been stirred; and lastly add the beaten whites of the eggs.

5. 5

   Place a layer of the dark part in a well buttered cake-lin, then a layer of the light, and so continue until all the batter is used, ending with the dark.

6. 6

   Bake for three-quarters of an hour in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 232. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MARBLE CAKE. One cupful of sugar. One-half cupful of butter. Rub these to a cream, divide the cream into two por- tions, and use one portion for the dark and the other portion for the light part of the cake. THE DARK PART. One-quarter cupful of molasses. One-half cupful of milk. One cupful of flour. Two eggs (yolks). One tea-spoonful of baking-powder. One-half tea-spoonful of cloves. One-half tea-spoonful of cinnamon. One-quarter tea-spoonful of grated nutmeg. Add to one of the portions of creamed butter and sugar the beaten yolks of the eggs, and then the milk and molasses. Stir the powder, spice and flour together, add the mixture, and beat thoroughly for three or four min- utes. It may be found necessary to slightly increase the 534 THE PATTERN COOK-BOOK. quantity of flour named. The track made by the spoon in stirring the butter should not at once sink back. THE LIGHT PART. Two eggs (whites)

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