Nut Cake

Ingredients

• One cupful of sugar
• half a cupful of butter
• half a cupful of milk
• two cupfuls of pastry flour
• two eggs
• one coffee-cupful of chopped raisins
• one of chopped English walnuts
• one teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• half a teaspoonful of soda

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream.

2. 2

   Add the sugar gradually, and when light, the eggs well beaten, then the milk and the flour, in which the soda and cream of tartar have been thoroughly mixed.

3. 3

   Mix quickly, and add the raisins and nuts.

4. 4

   Bake in rather deep sheets in a moderate oven for thirty-five minutes.

5. 5

   Frost, if you please.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 159. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Nut Cake. One cupful of sugar, half a cupful of butter, half a cupful of milk, two cupfuls of pastry flour, two eggs, one coffee-cup ful of chopped raisins, one of chopped English walnuts, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda

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