Mountain Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb. butter
• 1 lb. sifted flour
• 1 lb. sugar
• 6 eggs beaten separately
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tea cup sweet milk
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar

Method

1. 1

   Mix and bake as for pound cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book (1948) by Central Methodist Church (Spencer, N.C.). Gertrude Bobbitt Circle, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 lb. sugar 2 tsp. baking powder V2 lb. butter 2 tsp. vanilla Cut fine dates and nuts. Cream butter and sugar. Add beaten egg yolks. Sift flour and baking powder over dates and nuts, mix Well. Add butter and sugar, also egg yolks. Combine. Then add beaten egg whites with vanilla. Fold in. Bake 3 hours at 300 de- grees. Put pan of water on rack over cake while baking. Mrs. A. F. Land 22 CHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOW CAKE V2 cup shortening 2 eg.^s % cup sugar 2 squares chocolate *2 teaspoon salt 1% cup flour 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon soda V2 cup white Karo 1 cup sour milk Blend shortening, sugar, salt, vanilla and slightly beaten eggs. Add syrup and melted chocolate. Beat well. Then add flour and soda (sifted together) alternately with milk, mixing thoroughly. Bake in two layers in oven 375 degrees. ICING 2 egg whites 8 niarshmallows 1 cup white Karo V2 teaspoon vanilla Combine egg whites and syrup in top of double boiler. Cook while beating with rotary beater until thick and fluffy. Add diced niarshmallows and beat until melted. Remove from heat, add vanilla and beat until it holds its peaks. Spread. Mrs. J. E. Brown GINGERBREAD 2 cups sifted cake flour 1/3 cup shortening 2 teaspoons baking soda x/£ cup sugar a/4 teaspoon soda 1 egg, well beaten 2 teaspoons ginger 2/3 cup molasses 1 teaspoon cinnamon % cup sour milk or buttermilk 1/2 teaspoon salt Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, soda, spices and salt, and sift together three times. Cream shortening thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add egg and molasses; then flour, alternately with milk. Beat after each addition until smooth. Pour into greased pan or a ring mold. Bake in moderate over (350 degrees F.) ll/± hours. Serve with whipped cream. As a variation use gingerbread as the base for fruit shortcakes. Serves 6. Mrs. J. L. Stoudemire SOUTHERN SPICY GINGERBREAD (Very old recipe) 2 eggs 2 teaspoons each soda and gin- % cup brown sugar ger % cup molasses (home made is l^o teaspoon cinnamon best) V2 teaspoon each cloves, nutmeg % cup melted shortening and baking powder 2x/2 cups flour 1 cup boiling water Add beaten eggs to the sugar, molasses and melted shortening, then add the dry ingredients which have been mixed and sifted and lastly the hot water. Bake in small individual pans or in a shallow pan in moderate oven 350 degrees, 30 to 40 minutes. Miss Abbie Peeler 23 SOFT GINGERBREAD (Very old recipe, belonged to Mrs. Peeler's grandmother) 1 tablespoon shortening; 1 cup brown suiiar, or white, 1 egg, 1 cup molasses, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 2 teaspoons ginger, 1 teaspoon allspice, 3 teaspoons baking powder, l/o teaspoon salt, 1% cups sweet milk. Soften shortening not melting, add the sugar, egg, and cream all together. Stir in the molasses, and add the flour, spices, salt, baking powder has been sifted together, and add the milk. Bake in a shallow pan thirtyfive minutes in (325 P.). Mrs. George C. Peeler UPSIDE DOWN GINGERBREAD CAKE IV2 tablespoon butter melted in iron skillet, add V2 cup molasses or syrup. Heat to boiling point. Set aside in warm place. Pit slices of pineapple into bottom of skillet. Fill in between with nuts and raisins. Cream 3 table spoons shortening and V2 cup sugar, add 1 egg well beaten, V2 CUP molasses or syrup, 1% cup flour to which has been added x/2 teaspoon each of ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, salt and soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Mix thoroughly. Add V2 cup boiling water. Bake in moderate oven 30 or 35 minutes. Mrs. Luther French MOUNTAIN CAKE 1/2 lb. butter 1 lb. sifted flour J lb. sugar 6 eggs beaten separately 1 teaspoon each baking powder 1 tea cup sweet milk

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