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Number Cake

From Six little cooks, 1910
Presented as published in 1910. 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 Six little cooks (1910) by Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

NUMBER CAKE. One cnp butter, two of sugar, three of flour, four eggs, half a cup milk, half a teaspoonful soda and one of cream tartar. A very little spice improves it to some tastes; not more than half a teaspoonful in all of cinnamon, ground cloves and allspice mixed

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