Plain Cake

Ingredients

• Three eggs
• one cup sugar
• one and three-fourths cups flour
• one-half cup butter
• three-fourths cup milk
• two teaspoons baking powder

Method

No method was recorded for this recipe.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book (1907) by Marian B. Sexton, page 86. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAIN CAKE. Mrs. Otillie Roeder Neece. Three eggs, one cup sugar, one and three- fourths 180 CAKES cups flour, one-half cup butter, three- fourths cup milk, two teaspoons baking powder. PORK CAKE. Mrs. Mary Patterson. One pound salt pork chopped fine, one pound rais- ins, one pound currants, one pint brown sugar, half pound citron, one pint boiling water, half pint mo- lasses, one heaping quart flour, one teaspoon mace, two teaspoons each of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, rind of one lemon grated, one tablespoon soda dis- solved in hot water. Pour the boiling water on pork, stir until melted, then pass through the colander, add sugar, molasses, spices and half the flour, then fruit mixed with flour, then add soda and rest of flour. Bake in well buttered cake pan in a hot and steady oven. POTATO CAKE. Mrs. Chas. Hoy. Two-thirds cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup English walnuts, four eggs, one cup mashed potatoes, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one tea- spoon cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice. POUND CAKE. Mrs. Janie Pebbles. Ten whole, eggs, one pound flour, one pound pul- verized sugar, three-quarters pound butter, a little grated nutmeg. Cream the butter and sugar and nut- meg. Separate the eggs, beat the yellows light, add to butter and sugar, then part of the flour, then part ot the beaten whites, then the rest of the flour and the whites. Bake two hours in a moderate oven. POUND CAKE. Four eggs, beaten separately, one cup of sugar, three-fourths of butter, one tablespoon sweet milk, one teaspoon baking powder, one and three-fourths cups of fl

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