Orange Cake
From Historic Paxton, her days and her ways, 1722-1913, 1913
Icing: 2 cups of pulverized sugar, the juice and grated yellow rind of orange. Stir until sufficiently soft to spread. Put between layers and on top.
Presented as published in 1913. 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 Historic Paxton, her days and her ways, 1722-1913 (1913) by Helen Bruce Wallace, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
. 3 cups of flour. 1 cup of sweet milk. 6 eggs (whites). 3 teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in layers in moderate oven. Layer Fruit Cake (Mrs. Joshua E. Butherford.) 1 cup of butter. 2 cups of brown sugar. 1 cup of molasses. 185 1 cup of coffee. 4% cups of flour. 2 teaspoons each of soda, cinnamon, cloves and mace. 1 pound each of raisins and currants. 14 pound of citron. Bake in layers or a loaf. Liverpool Cake (Miss Matilda Elder.) 1 pound of flour. 1 pound of sugar. % pound of butter. 4 eggs (beat without separating). 1 cupful of sweet milk. 3 level teaspoons of baking powder. When the mixture is ready to put in the oven, stir in very lightly the baking powder. Nut Cake (Mrs. Thomas Smallwood.) 2 cups of sugar. % cup of butter. 3 eggs. 1 cup of cream. 3% cups of flour. 2 teaspoons of baking powder. 1 large cup of chopped nuts. Bake in a loaf about % of an hour. Old Fashioned Pound Cake (Miss Margaret S. Rutherford.) 1 pound pulverized sugar. 1 pound of butter. 186 15 ounces of flour. 10 eggs. 1% tablespoons of brandy. Cream the butter and sugar, add the yolks of the eggs, well beaten, then the brandy. Sift the flour three times, sifting it the last time into the batter alternately with the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Grease and line a Turk's head pan, with paper, using two layers of paper for the bottom of the pan. Pour the batter into it and bake in a moderate oven, 1% hours. Keep the cake covered with paper while baking. Orange Cake (Mrs. Harry Holmes.) % cup of butter. 2 cups of sugar. 1 cup of milk. 2% cups of flour. 2 teaspoons of baking powder. 4 eggs. 1 orange (grated rind)
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