Orange Cake

Ingredients

• four titties 1/2 cupful of flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder
• Beat well two eggs
• one cupful of sugar
• one-half cupful of milk
• one tablespoonful of melted butter
• the same quantity of orange juice

Method

1. 1

   Sift together four titties 1/2 cupful of flour and 1 1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder.

2. 2

   Beat well two eggs, add one cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of milk, one tablespoonful of melted butter and the same quantity of orange juice; then the sifted flour and baking powder.

3. 3

   Bake in a square, shallow tin.

4. 4

   When cooked split open and fill with a cream made as follows: Into a cup squeeze the juice of one orange, add a tablespoonful of lemon juice and hot water to fill the cup, put this on to cook in a double boiler, thicken with one tablespoonful of cornstarch wet with cold water, and add the grated rind of half an orange, one teaspoonful of butter, two heaping tablespoonfuls of sugar and the yolk of an egg.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 77. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cupful of sugar and one cupful of but- ter or good shortening. Cream them and add two cups of molasses and two eggs. Dissolve two good-sized teaspoonfuls of soda in a little hot water, and fill up the cup it is in with cold water. Add it to the other mixture and stir in enough flour to make a soft dough, but one that can be rolled out and cut into cookies. Spice to suit the taste. Delicious Nut Cake. — Cream half a cupful of sugar, adding the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs and beating very light ; then add, by alter- nate bits, two-thirds of a cupful of milk and one and a half cupfuls of flour mixed with two level teaspoonfuls of baking powder. At the last turn in a cupful of minced English walnut meat and bake in a shallow tin. When the cake is cool cover with icing, mark in squares and put nut meat on the top of each. Nut Wafers, — Two eggs, one cup of sugar, two tablespoon fuls of flour, one cup of nut meats chopped fine. Hickorynuts are preferred, and the sugar should be light brown. Spread the mixture in a very thin layer on a well-greased tin and bake ten minutes or until well tinged with brown. Cut in squares and remove from the tin as soon as they are done, that the wafer.!! may grow crispy in the air. Oatmeal Cookies.— Cream three-fourths of a cupful of butter with one c;upful of sugar; add two well-beaten eggs. Sift three-fourths of a tea- spoonful of soda into two cupfuls of flour; add one-half a teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon; now add to the mixture two cup- fuls of uncooked rolled oats and one scant cupful of chopped raisins sprinkled with a little flour. Drop by the teaspoonful into a greased pan ; bake in moderate ov<eiL Oatmeal Crisps.— One tablespoonful of butter, creamed, one cup of sugar, added gradually; two and one-half cups rolled oats; two teaspoons baking powder well mixed with the oats ; two eggs, well beaten, one- half teaspoon of salt and two teaspoons vanilla in the eggs. Mix in the order given ; bake in a medium to slow oven. A heaping teaspoonful of mixture makes a dainty crisp. Allow room for them to spread in the pan. If you cannot get on without flour use a little best bread flour- not pastry. IM THE RURAL COOK BOOK. Oatmeal Macaroons. — Creaiu two level table spoonfuls of butter, scant measure; add gradually half a cup of sugar, then the beaten yolks of two large eggs beaten again with half a cup of sugar. Then stir in S^ cupfuls of rolled oats, mixed with 2}4 level teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one'fourth teaspoonful of salt. Flavor with one teaspoonful of vanilla, then fold in the whites of two eggs, beaten dry. Drop with a ttaspoon on to a buttered baking- sheet, making little rounds about three inches apart, and bake in a slow oven. Orange Cake. — Sitt together four titties lyi cupful of flour and I>^ teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat well two eggs, add one cupful of sij^ar, one-half cupful of milk, one tablespoonful of melted butter and the same quantity of orange juice

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