Marble Cake

Ingredients

• 1 breakfast-cupful of butter
• 5 breakfast-cupfuls of flour
• 1 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda
• 3 breakfast-cupfuls of caster sugar
• the whites of eight eggs
• 1 breakfast-cupful of sour cream
• 2 breakfast-cupfuls of brown sugar
• 1 breakfast-cupful of molasses
• the yolks of eight eggs
• one whole egg
• 1 wineglassful of brandy

Method

1. 1

   Mix butter with flour and bicarbonate of soda.

2. 2

   Add sugar, egg whites, and sour cream.

3. 3

   In another basin, mix flour, bicarbonate of soda, and spices.

4. 4

   Rub in butter, add brown sugar, molasses, sour cream, yolks, and whole egg.

5. 5

   Layer light and dark batter in a mould and bake quickly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Marble Cake. — Make the light part of a marble Cake by- mixing 1 breakfast-cupful of butter rubbed in 5 breakfast- cupfuls of flour in which 1 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda has been already mixed with 3 breakfast-cupfuls of caster sugar, the whites of eight eggs, 1 breakfast-cupful of sour cream, and beat all well together. Mix in another basin 5 breakfast-cupfuls of flour, 1 teaspoonful of bicar- bonate of soda, and 1 teaspoonful of mixed spices ; rub in 1 breakfast-cupful of butter, and when quite smooth add 2 breakfast-cupfuls of brown sugar, 1 breakfast-cupful of molasses, 1 breakfast-cupful of sour cream, the yolks of eight eggs, one whole egg, and 1 wineglassful of brandy

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