Nut Cakes

Ingredients

• half a cupful of butter
• a cup and a half of sugar
• the yolks of two eggs
• two cupfuls of flour
• a teaspoonful and a half of baking powder
• a cupful of milk
• a cupful of chopped pecan or hickory nuts
• the whites of the eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add yolks and beat.

2. 2

   Sift flour with baking powder, add to mixture with milk.

3. 3

   Stir in nuts and fold in beaten egg whites.

4. 4

   Bake in patty pans, ice, and sprinkle with chopped nuts.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .. (1904) by Elisabeth Luther Cary, page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

nut-cakes cream half a cupful of butter and a cup and a half of sugar ; add the yolks of two eggs and beat all together. Sift two cupfuls of flour into which has been stirred a teaspoonful and a half of bak- ing powder. Add to the butter, sugar, and eggs a cupful of milk, and then tihe flour. At the last stir in a cupful of chopped pecan or hickory nuts, and fold in lightly the whites of the eggs

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