Never-failing Cake

Ingredients

• Three-quarters of a pound of butter
• one pound of sugar
• one pound of flour
• eight eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add flour and eggs gradually, mixing well each time.

2. 2

   Bake in a one-pound mould.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 90. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

eight eggs very light ; add enough powdered sugar to make it thick as icing ; flavor it with lemon, and with a spoon put it on each cake, high in the centre; put the cakes in an oven, and as soon as they are a pale brown take them out. Ginger Snaps. Four quarts of flour, one quart of molasses, one pound of sugar (brown), one pound of lard, one ounce of soda or pearlash, and three ounces of ginger. Jew's Cake. To one pint of flour put four ounces of brown sugar, a little nutmeg and lemon-peel, or mace or cinnamon, ac- cording to taste ; mix the dough up with the yolk of an egg\ roll it out thin, and cut into any shape you please. Just as they are to be put into the oven throw a little pounded white sugar over them (not pounded very fine). The brown sugar must be rolled fine and smooth with the rolling-pin before it is mixed with the flour. Good Gingeb Cake. One pound of butter, three-quarters of a pound of brown sugar, one quart of molasses, one ounce of cinna- mon, three dozen cloves, six dozen allspice, two table- spoonfuls of ground ginger, and about three quarts of flour, or enough to make a tolerably stiff dough. Mrs. Garrett's Ten-minute Cakb. Take two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar and mix it, by sifting, with one pint of dry flour, one even teaspoon- f ul of soda, dissolved in a teacupf ul of milk ; rub a piece 190 VmGimJL COOKSRT-BOOK, of butter the size of an egg into the dry flour ; then beat up one eggj and a teacupful of sugar; mix all well to- gether, and bake without delay. Have your oven ready heated before you begin mixing, and you can make and bake the cake in ten minutes. Bakeb's ob Plebeian Gingbbbbead. Two quarts of flour, four teaspoonfuls of soda, one quart of molasses, one cup of sour cream, one half cup of ginger, one large table-spoonful of lard. Sprinkle the ginger into the flour ; mix sugar and molasses with the cream and soda. Nbvee-pailing Cake. Three-quarters of a pound of butter, one pound of sugar, one pound of flour

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.