Old Maid's Cake
From The National home cook book, 1900
Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The National home cook book (1900), page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
OLD MAID’S CAKE—One pound flour, half pound sugar, one-fourth pound butter, four wine glasses of sweet milk, half pound of raisins, one-fourth pound currants, one- fourth pound orange peel, one-fourth of a nutmeg, two tea spoons ground ginger, one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoo oo anete of soda. Mix well together; bake. for about tw ours ORANGE CAKE—For the cake, one cup sugar, two eee lump of butter size of walnut, one-half cup sweet milk, 1% cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder (or two teaspoon cream tartar and soda. I like the cream tartar and sod best.) Bake in two or three layers. z For the filling heat one-half pint milk; moisten table 4: spoon flour with cold milk and add to the hot milk; stir and cook until smooth and thick; add one-half cup sugar and grated rind of one-half orange. Beat the yolks of thre eggs until creamy, and add to the mixture; cook just a min ute, take from the fire, add gradually the juice of one or ange, strained. When “cool spread between layers of caer Any good sponge cake will answer for the cake. ; ORANGE CAKE—One cup sugar, one-half cup ‘putt i one-half cup milk, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking ~ powder, two eggs; beat the whites of the esss separately ; flavor with orange. Bake in layers. a Orange cream for filling: Put into a cup the Dna! < one-half and the juice of one orange, one tablespoon of iem- on juice, and fill with hot water; strain and put on to bo add one teaspoon of corn starch, wet with cold water,-a cook 10 minutes, being careful not to scorch. Beat yolk o - egg with two heaping teaspoons sugar, add to the mixtur with one teaspoon of butter, let cook until the butter ds dis - solved, and cool. Fill the cake with cream and front W. - orange icing a ONE EEG FOR TWO CAKES—With white: One cu ba sugar, one tablespoon butter, white of one egg, one cu sweet milk, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powd With yolk of egg: One cup milk, yolk of one egg, one cake — - chocolate. Boil all together. Stir together one cup. sugar “f one tablespoon butter, then put chocolate, milk and yolk of egg, add two cups flour with two teaspoons baking powd PRESIDENTIAL JUMBLES—One-half pound flour, pound sugar, three-fourths pound butter, three eggs. well together. Add one teaspoon of carb
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