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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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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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