Molasses Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 cup milk
• 2 pints flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
• 1 egg

Method

1. 1

   Rub smooth the butter and sugar; add the milk, egg, and molasses; stir in flour, sifted with the powder; mix into a consistent batter, and bake in cake-tin 40 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The royal baker and pastry cook (1902) by New York Cooking School, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

, pints flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 6 eggs, 1 gill wine, 1 teaspoon each extract rose, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Rub the butter and sugar to a very light cream ; add the eggs, 2 at a time, beating 5 minutes after each addition ; add the flour sifted with the powder, wine, extracts ; mix into a smooth batter, put into a thickly papered shallow cake-pan (fig. XIII), and bake in moderate oven IVi hours. When cold, ice the bottom and sides with white icing. Marshmallow Cake. — 1 egg, Hi cups sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 cup milk, 2 cups flour. teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Cream butter, add *4 of sugar, and beat. Add beaten egg and remainder of sugar, and beat 4 minutes. Add alternately flour and milk, beating well. Add vanilla and bake in layer- cake pans in quick oven. Cut fine *4 pound marshmallows. Spread them between cake layers, and stand in open oven till they melt. Marbled Cake. — This is made in separate batters, a dark and a light one. For the dark one, take cup butter, I cup brown sugar, 2 Vi cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Pow- der, yolks of 4 eggs, Vj cup milk, 1 teaspoon each extract cinnamon, cloves, and allspice. For the light one take cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2V2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, whites of 4 eggs, cup milk, 1 tea- spoon extract lemon. Both batters are made by rubbing the butter and sugar to a cream, adding the eggs, beating a few minutes, then adding the flour, sifted with the powder, the extracts and milk, and mixing into smooth bat- ter, rather firm. Have a paper-lined tin (fig. IX) ; with a spoon drop the two batters alter- nately into it, and bake in a rather quick oven 35 minutes. Minnehaha Cake. — Vj cup butter, cups sugar, 3 eggs, 1 cup milk, 2Vs cups flour, 2 tea- spoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon va- nilla. Mix dry ingredients. Cream butter and sugar, add beaten yolks and vanilla, then, al- ternately, the milk and flour. Beat well, and bake in 3 layers in quick oven . Put together with fruit filling (see Cake Fillings). Orange Cake. — Vi cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 5 eggs, 1 pint flour, IVj teaspoons Royal Bak- ing Powder, 1 teaspoon extract orange, 1 cup milk. Rub the butter and sugar to a cream ; add the eggs, 2 at a time, beating 5 minutes after each addition ; add the flour sifted with the powder, the milk and extract; mix into a smooth, fine batter, put in a paper-lined cake- tin (fig. IX), and bake in a moderate oven 30 minutes. When cool, cover the top with the following preparation: Whip the whites of 3 eggs to a dry froth ; then carefully mix in 4 cups sugar, the juice, grated rind, and soft pulp, free of white pith and seeds, of 2 sour oranges. Nut Cake. — Vs cup butter, IV2 cups sugar, 3 eggs, 2Vs cups flour, IVs teaspoons Royal Bak- ing Powder, Vs cup milk, 1 cup of any meats of nuts preferred or at hand. Rub the butter and sugar to a hght, white cream ; add the eggs, beaten a little, then the flour, sifted with the powder ; mix with the milk and nuts into a rather firm batter, and bake in a paper-lined tin (fig. IX), in a steady oven, 35 minutes. Peach-Blossom Cake. — 1 cup pulverized sugar, Vs cup butter, stirred together until like thick cream, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, Vs cup sweet milk ; beat the whites of 3 eggs, and add to a cup of flour, mixed with the baking powder; stir and add Vi teaspoon com-starch. Flavor strongly with extract peach. Bake in 2 square sponge-tins in moderately quick oven, and when done sandwich with finely grated cocoanut and pink sugar. Frost with clear icing, and sprin- kle this with pulverized pink sugar. THE ROYAL BAKING POWDER IS ABSOLUTELY PURE. 16 THE ROYAL BAKER AND PASTRY COOK Mola&ses Cake. — 1 cup butter, 1 cup brown sugar, cup molasses, 1 cup milk. Its pints flour, IMt teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 egg

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