No Name Cake
From Temperance cook book, 1887
Serves 7
Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 99. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
one cupful of molasses, six cupfuls of flour browned if you wish the cake very dark, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, allspice, cloves, one nutmeg, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. CAKE. 165 FRCTT CAKE. (No. 6.) One and one-half pounds of floor (browned), one and one-half pounds of sugar, one and one-fourth of batter, two pounds of raisins, two of currants, one pound citron, two nutmegs, one-half pint of molasses, one half teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of cloves, and one of cinnamon, ten eggs, three taMespoocfuls of rose water. Bake three hours. EVEBY DAY FBOT CAKE. One cupful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful molas- ses, six cupfuls flour, one cupful sour cream or milk, four eggs, one heaping teaspoonful of soda, one pound of raisins, one pound of currants, one-fourth pound of citron, nutmeg, cloves and mace, one tablespoonful of each. RUTH'S CAKE. One cupful sugar, one-half cup butter, one capful sour milk, one teaspoonful soda, one-half nutmeg, one teaspoonful cinna- mon, one cupful chopped raisins, two and one-half cupfuls flour, a little salt. No NAME CAKE. One scant cup of butter, one cupful of brown sugar, one-fourth cup inilk, one cupful molasses, three cupfuls flour, two eggs, one- half teaspoouful of soda, one cupful currants, one-half pound of citron, one and one-half pounds of seedless raisins, one teaspoon- ful each cloves and cinnamon, one-half nutmeg; add more fruit if you wish. Bake in bread pans from two to three hours
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