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Nut Cake II

From Cooks in clover, 1889

Mrs. G. F. Smith.

Presented as published in 1889. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooks in clover (1889), page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Nut Cake, II. — Beat half a cup of butter and two cups of sugar until creamy, add the yelks of four eggs, and half a teaspoon of soda dissolved in one cup of milk, three cups of flour, and one teaspoon of cream-tartar ; then beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and stir in quickly one cup of English walnuts, broken up fine

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