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Metropolitan Cake

From The Ideal cook book, 1899

Serves 12

Presented as published in 1899. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ideal cook book (1899) by Anne Clarke, page 92. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Metropolitan Cake—Ingredients— Light part: 2 cupfuls sugar, 34 cupful butter, 1 cupful sweet milk, 24% cupfuls of flour, whites of 5 eggs, 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Dark part: % cupful molasses, % cupful flour, 1 cupful raisins, I teaspoonful cinnamon, ¥% teaspoonful cloves, 2 large spoonfuls of the light part

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