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Pound-Cake
From The new Kentucky home cook book, 1884
Serves 19
Presented as published in 1884. 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 The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 143. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
POUND-CAKE. Take two pounds of powdered sugar, two pounds of butter, two pounds of sifted flour, twenty eggs. Beat the whites and yelks separately, then beat them together. Cream the butter and sugar together, then add the flour alternately with the eggs; add one wine-glassful of whisky and one ta- 282 The New Kentucky Home Cook Booh ble-spoonful of rose-water
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