Pecan Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 cups flour
• 2 level teaspoonfuls baking powder
• 1 cup nuts (chopped fine)
• 4 whites of eggs

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour and baking powder 3 times; cream butter, add sugar, then alternately milk and flour, lastly the whites of the eggs and nut meats.

2. 2

   Bake in a sheet in a shallow pan 30 to 40 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book (1921), page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

/2 cups butter; 6 eggs: iy2 cups sour cream: 2 teaspoonfuls soda; y2 lb currants: % lb raisins; *4 lb citron; 1 nutmeg; sufficient flour to form stiff batter. MRS. MOURSUND. Lightning Cake. 1 cup butter ; 4 eggs : 1 cup sugar ; 1 heaping cup flour : 1 teaspoonful baking powder ; rind and juice of one lemon. Cream butter and sugar ; add beaten eggs, then flour : beat well. Spread 1 inch thick on flat buttered pans, sprinkle with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon. Bake in hot oven; when done cut in squares. MISS E. LUNGKWITZ. MRS. ALB. STAATS. — 135 — Pecan Cake. y2 cup butter; 1% cups sugar; % cups milk- 2 cups flour; 2 level teaspoonfuls baking powder; 1 cup nuts (chopped fine) ; 4 whites of eggs. Sift flour and baking powder 3 times; cream butter, add sugar, then alternately milk and flour, lastly the whites of the eggs and nut meats. Bake in a sheet in a shallow pan 30 to 40 minutes. CHOCOLATE ICING: 1 cup sugar; % oz. choco- late; 1 white of egg (beaten dry); % cup water; y2 teaspoonful vanilla extract. Boil sugar, water and chocolate, stirring. Cover vessel and boil 3 minutes. Uncover and boil until it forms a soft ball when tested in cold water; then beat slowly into the white of egg and continue beating (after extract is added) until thickened sufficiently to spread on cakes. MRS. HENRY HIRSCH. Pecan Cake* (Nuss Torte.) 1 lb pecans, (ground or chopped very fine) ; 1 lb sugar, 12 eggs, (whites of 7 eggs to be beaten se- parately) ; 4 tablespoons flour; spices to taste; grated rind of one lemon; a pinch of baking powder. Beat the 12 egg yolks ; 5 whites and sugar, at least 15 minutes. Add the grated lemon rind, spices, pecans, and lastly add alternately the stiffly beaten whites of the 7 eggs, and the flour, sifted with the baking powder. Bake at least one hour in a moderate oven, and do not shake while baking. MRS. AUG. CAMERON. — 136 — Mandelbrot. la/4 cups chopped almonds or nuts; 2 cups sugar;

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