Plain Spice Cake

Ingredients

• an egg
• two-thirds of a cupful of sugar
• the same quantity of molasses
• and of butter
• a cupful of milk
• two cupfuls and a half of flour
• one teaspoonful of soda
• one level teaspoouful of cream-of-tartar
• one table-spoonful of vinegar or lemon juice
• one table-spoonful of mixed spice

Method

1. 1

   Beat the egg well, and after adding to it the molasses, sugar, spice, and butter, — the latter being first melted, — beat again.

2. 2

   Mix the soda with the milk, and add to the other mixture.

3. 3

   Mix the cream-of-tartar with the flour, and stir into the batter; finally, add the vinegar or lemon juice.

4. 4

   Pour into two shallow pans, and bake for twenty minutes in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 394. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plain Spice Cake. This is delicious. It is made of an egg, two-thirds of a cupful of sugar, the same quantity of molasses and of butter, a cupful of milk, two cupfuls and a half of flour, measured generously, one teaspoonful of soda, one level teaspoouful of cream-of-tartar, one table-spoonful of vine- gar or lemon juice, and one table-spoonful of mixed spice

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