Orange Cake

Ingredients

• One cup sugar
• one-half cup butter
• one-half cup sweet milk
• two cups flour
• three egos
• one and a half teaspoons baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Bake in jelly tins and spread orange icing between the layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ORANGE CAKE. One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup cold water, three eggs (reserving the whites for frosting), — a i ‘ sa 902 - DORA’S COOK BOOK. A Seen: site two even cups sifted flour, two teaspoons baking powder, juice and pulp of one orange. Bake in three jelly-tins. Make a frosting of the whites of the eggs, one small cup od white sugar, and grated peel of the orange. Spread on each layer. : CINNAMON DROPS. Fd One egg, one cup sugar, one cup molasses, one-half cup butter, one cup water, one tablespoon cinnamon, one tea- spoon soda, five cups of flour. Bake in cups. HICKORY NUT CREAM CAKE. Four eggs, two cups sugar, one-half cup cream, two ~ and one-half cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in jelly-tins, and between the layers spread the following cream: -One pint of boiling milk, one cup of chopped hickory nut meats, and two tablespoonfuls of corn-starch, COCOANUT LAYER CAKE. The yolks of three eggs, two cups sugar, one-half cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three cups flour, two tea- spoons baking powder. Bake in jelly tins, and use the whites for frosting each cake. Sprinkle each layer thick-~ ly with cocoanut. ORANGE CAKE. 4 One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, two cups flour, three egos, one and a half teaspoons baking powder

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