Nut Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cupful butter
• 2 cupfuls sugar
• 4 cupfuls sifted flour
• 8 eggs
• 3 cupfuls shelled nuts
• 1 nutmeg
• 1 teaspoonful ground cloves
• 1 teaspoonful ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder in flour

Method

1. 1

   Beat yolks of eggs and sugar until very light; add the butter, well creamed; then the flour, and whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth.

2. 2

   Mix in the spices well; lastly, add the nuts, well dredged in flour.

3. 3

   Bake in a moderate oven one hour and a half, or until the cake begins to leave the sides of the pan.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Annie Dennis cook book (1905) by Annie E. Dennis, page 129. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

nut Cake Make a batter as for white cake, bake in layers; put together with icing (into which has been stirred a teaspoonful of butter) ; and place English walnuts in large pieces between each layer, icing the bottom of each layer of cake as well as the top. When it is stacked, ice and stick over the top the nuts, shelled carefully, breaking them in halves, placing the broken side down. 250 THE NEW ANNIE DENNIS COOK BOOK Citran Cake 4 eggs (whites) L heaping teaspoonful bak- 2 teacupfuls flour (sifted) ing powder (sifted in 1 teacup ful sugar the flour) ^ teacupful butter Y2 teacupful flour, to dredge % teacupful sweet milk the citron 1 teacupful citron (chopped 1 lb flour fine) 1 lb sugar 10 eggs % lb butter Cream the butter and half the sugar ; beat the eggs separately, adding to the yolks the other half of the sugar; add to the butter part of the flour, then the yolks, the rest of the flour, and last the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Put in the cake pan three layers of well greased brown paper, the sides cut to fit the pan ; now put in a layer of batter (have the citron chopped fine and well flavored), a layer of citron, a layer of batter, a layer of citron, making thicker layers of citron as the top is reached. Have last, a thin layer of batter. Bake two hours in a moderate oven. Nut Cake 1 cupful butter 1 teaspoonful ground cloves 2 cupfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful ground cin- 4 cupfuls sifted flour nam on 8 eggs 1 teaspoonful baking pow- 3 cupfuls shelled nuts der in flour 1 nutmeg

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