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Old-Fashioned Loaf Cake
From Buckeye cookery, 1892
Serves 24
Makes three large loaves.
Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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Ingredients
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As published
This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
OLD-FASHIONED Loar CAKE, Three pounds (three quarts sifted and well heaped) flour, one and a fourth pounds (a rounded pint of soft) butter, one and three- fourths pounds (one quart) sugar, five gills new milk, half pint yeast, three eggs, two pounds raisins, tea-spoon soda, gill of brandy or wine, or a fourth pint of molasses, two tea-spoons tinnamon and ‘two of nutmeg
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