One Egg Cake

Ingredients

• One cup sugar
• one large tablespoonful butter
• one egg
• one-half cup sweet milk
• one and one-half cups flour
• two small teaspoonfuls baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 80. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one-half cup sweet milk, cook this on top of stove, stirring until it thickens; then set aside to cool and add it to part two just before putting in the flour. Part Two. — One-half cup butter, one cup granulated sugar, two eggs, salt, three-fourths cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, add part one, two cups flour. Bake in two layers and put them together with boiled frosting. C. W. C. Devil's Cake. One cup grated chocolate, two-thirds cup sugar, one-half cup sweet milk, yolk of one egg, one teaspoonful vanilla; cook the above until like a cream. When cool, mix with the following: One-half cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, two eggs, two cups flour, one level teaspoon soda, dissolve soda in the milk, bake in loaf or three layers; use plain boiled icing between layers. Mrs. James H. Gibson. Devil's Food Cake. Two eggs, two cups brown sugar, one-half cup sour milk, milk, one-half cup butter, three-fourths cup chocolate, grated, two and one-half cups flour, pour one-half cup of boiling water over one teaspoon soda. Filling. — Two cups brown sugar, one-half cup sweet milk, lump butter, vanilla to flavor; cook until it begins to harden when put in water (excellent). 162 New Century Cook Book. Devil's Food. First Part. — One cup brown sugar, scant one-half cup butter, yolks of three eggs, two cups flour, one teaspoon soda in flour, one-half cup sweet milk. Second Part. — One cup chocolate (grated), ©ne-half cup sweet milk, one cup brown sugar, put this over the stove and let it come almost to a boil, when cold mix with part first; bake in layers; white frosting for filling. Mrs. Donaldson. Devil's Cake. One-fourth cup grated bitter chocolate, one-half cup sugar, one-half cup sweet milk, one teaspoon corn starch; boil these ingredients together, remove from fire and add beaten yolk of one egg and let cool. - Cake Part. — One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sour milk, one and one-half cups flour, one egg and yolk of another, one teaspoon soda; put these two mixtures together and bake either, in a loaf or in layers, putting a frosting between, of white of one egg and powdered sugar. Mrs. H. L. Rankin. Devil's Cake. One-half cup butter, yolks of two eggs, one cup brown sugar creamed, one-half cup grated chocolate dissolved in two tablespoonfuls hot water; after beating well, add two-thirds of a cup of sweet milk, one scant teaspoonful soda in milk, two cups of flour, one heaping spoonful of baking powder, one teaspoon- ful of vanilla. E. A. Stearns. Polka Cake. Two cups sugar, one-half cup butter, four cups flour, one cup milk, one-half cup molasses, one teaspoonful soda, four eggs, one pound raisins. Mrs. C. G. Trusdell. Minnehaha Cake. One-half cup butter, one and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup milk, three eggs, two teaspoons baking powder, two cups flour; bake in three layers. Filling. — Take a teacup sugar and a little water, boil until brittle when dropped in cold water; remove from the stove and stir quickly into it the white of one egg well beaten; add to this a cup of stoned raisins chopped fine; place between the layers and cover the top. Mrs. Mick. New Century Cook Book. 163 One Egg Cake. One cup sugar, one large tablespoonful butter, one egg, one- half cup sweet milk, one and one-half cups flour, two small tea- spoonfuls baking powder

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