Moire Ribbon Cake

Ingredients

• one cup of butter
• two cups of sugar
• four eggs
• one cup of milk
• three cups of flour
• one heaping teaspoon of Royal baking powder
• one cup of raisins
• one cup of currants
• one teaspoon of cinnamon
• one teaspoon of allspice
• one teaspoon of cloves

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, milk, and flour with baking powder.

2. 2

   Divide into three parts.

3. 3

   For the middle layer, add raisins, currants, and spices.

4. 4

   Bake in shallow tins and layer with jelly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooks in clover (1889), page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Moire Ribbon Cake. — Cream together one cup j of butter and two cups of sugar, add four eggs, beating thoroughly, then one cup of milk, and lastly \ three cups of flour prepared with one heaping tea- -spoon of Royal baking powder. Divide this mix- |ture into three parts. For the middle layer take I one of these parts, and add one cup of raisins, one I cup of currants, and one teaspoon each of cinna- ) mon, allspice and cloves. Bake in shallow, oblong ) tins, and put together with jelly, pressing gently, ) to unite them firmly. Mrs. J. H. Ackermaii. 8s Ribbon Cake. — Two cups of sugar, one cup of 1 butte

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