Nut Cake

Ingredients

• One-half cup butter
• one and one-half cups sugar
• two eggs
• three-quarters cup milk
• two cups flour
• two teaspoons baking powder
• vanilla
• three-quarters cup chopped walnuts

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, then add yolks of eggs, milk, flour, vanilla, nuts, and baking powder.

2. 2

   When thoroughly mixed, add the beaten whites of the eggs.

3. 3

   Bake three-quarters of an hour in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 82. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

NUT CAKE. Miss Crowe, 1441 Iowa street, Los Angeles.— One and one-half cups sugar, one good half-cup butter, two full cups flour, three eggs, two teaspoons cream of tartar, and one teaspoon soda; one large cup of chopped walnuts. Cream butter, sugar and eggs together; add one-half cup milk, then flour and the soda dissolved in hot water. Lastly, add nuts. Bake thirty-five minutes. Ice with yellow icing and decorate with walnuts. NO. 55. NUT CAKE. Miss B. L. Ecclestone, 1512 Maple avenue, Los Angeles.— One-half cup butter, one and one-half cups sugar, two eggs, three-quarters cup milk. two cups flour, vanilla, three-quarters cup chopped walnuts, two teaspoons baking powder

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