Nut Cake

Ingredients

• One-half cup butter
• one and one-half cups sugar
• three eggs
• two and one-half cups flour
• one and one-half teaspoons baking powder
• one-half cup sweet milk
• one cup any meats of nuts preferred

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and sugar to a light cream, add eggs beaten a little, then flour sifted with the powder.

2. 2

   Mix with the milk and nuts into a rather firm batter and bake in a paper lined tin for thirty-five minutes in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book (1907) by Marian B. Sexton, page 86. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

NUT CAKE. Mrs. J. G. Parshall. One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, three eggs, one- half cup sweet milk, one teaspoon cream tartar, one and one-half teaspoon soda, one and one-half cups flour, one cup chopped nuts. NUT CAKE. Mrs. J. D. Lynch. One-half cup butter, one and one-half cups sugar, three eggs, two and one-half cups flour, one and one- half teaspoons baking powder, one-half cup sweet milk, one cup any meats of nuts preferred

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