Marble Spice Cake

Ingredients

• 4 eggs (whites)
• 2 teacupfuls sifted flour
• 1 teacupful sugar
• 1/2 teacupful butter
• 1/2 teacupful sweet milk
• 1 level teaspoonful baking powder
• 4 eggs (yolks)
• 1 teaspoonful ground cinnamon
• 1 teacupful sugar
• 1/2 teacupful butter
• 1/2 teacupful sweet milk
• 2 teacupfuls sifted flour
• 1 teaspoonful ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoonful ground allspice

Method

1. 1

   White Part: Mix as directed for Premium White Cake.

2. 2

   Dark Part: Sift the baking powder in the flour.

3. 3

   Beat yolks and sugar together until very light; cream butter and add to this; stir in one cupful of flour, then the milk, then the rest of the flour.

4. 4

   Mix the spices and stir in last.

5. 5

   Pour a layer of the dark batter in the cake pan, then spoonfuls of the white here and there, then the dark again, and the light, until all the batter is used.

6. 6

   Bake an hour and a half in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Annie Dennis cook book (1905) by Annie E. Dennis, page 129. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Marble Spice Cake White Part 4 eggs (whites) 2 teacupfuls sifted flour 1 teacupful sugar V2 teaspoonful vanilla 1/2 teacupful butter 1 level teaspoonful baking 1/2 teacupful sweet milk powder Dark Part 4 eggs (yolks) 1 teaspoonful ground cinna- 1 teacupful sugar mon 1/2 teacupful butter 1 teaspoonful ground nut- 1/2 teacupful sweet milk meg 2 teacupfuls sifted flour 1 teaspoonful ground all- 1 level teaspoonful baking spice

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