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Measure Pound Cake

From Household hints, 1881
Presented as published in 1881. 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 Household hints (1881) by Emma Whitcomb Babcock, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Measure Pound Cake, — One t3acup of butter, one cof- fee-cup of sugar, one cup and a half of flour, five large eggs or six small ones, one cup of stoned raisins, one tea-spoon- ful of ma

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