Mother's Cake

Ingredients

• 1 scant cup butter
• cup sugar
• 3 eggs, beaten separately
• 1 teaspoonful lemon or vanilla
• 1 saltspoonful mace
• 3^ cup milk
• 3 cups pastry flour
• 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar
• ^ teaspoonful soda

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, then egg yolks and flavoring.

2. 2

   Reserve a quarter cup of flour.

3. 3

   Mix soda and cream of tartar into the remaining flour.

4. 4

   Alternate adding milk and flour, then fold in beaten egg whites.

5. 5

   Bake in a moderate oven for 40-50 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 222. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mother's Cake. {Mrs. R. M. Walcott.) This receipt is the foundation for countless varieties of cake, which are often given in cook books under different names, but which when analyzed are found to be identical in proportions. 1 scant cup butter. cup sugar. 3 eggs, beaten separately. 1 teaspoonful lemon or vanilla. 1 saltspoonful mace. 3^ cup milk. 3 cups pastry flour. 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar. ^ teaspoonful soda

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