Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pound butter
• 1 pound powdered sugar
• 14 eggs
• 1 pound sifted flour
• 1/2 teaspoonful mace
• a wineglass of brandy

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter to a cream and gradually add sugar.

2. 2

   Beat eggs until very light and stir in.

3. 3

   Add flour, mace, and brandy.

4. 4

   Bake for 1.5 hours in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delicate dishes (1896), page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

pound CAKE. 128 almonds, blanched and chopped fine. Spread very thick between the layers. Powdered sugar over the top. Mrs. Anna W. Knight. ENGLISH SEED CAKE. One pound flour, ^ of butter, ^ of sugar, 2 eggs well beaten, ^ pound seeds (caraway) or ^ pound raisins and a little candied orange peel; enough milk to make a thin dough. Put into 2 pans and bake i}( hours. Mrs. Earl W. Spencer. RAISIN CAKE. One cup brown sugar, % of butter, % of sour milk, 1% oi sifted flour, i of chopped raisins, 2 eggs, or yolks of 4, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg to suit the taste. Mrs. Neal. CUP CAKE. Four cups flour, 3 of sugar, i of butter, i of sweet milk, 5 eggs. Flavor with any preferred extract, 3 teaspoonfuls of Cameo baking powder sifted in the flour, Mrs. Virginia M. Harper. SPONGE CAKE. Four eggs, 2 cups sug'ar, 2 cups flour, fz cup boil- ing water, 2 teaspoonfuls of Cameo baking powder, lemon. Mrs. S. H. Stevens. %/A'^Ek|TINr» VALENTINE & GOiftPflNY^ VMr n ISHLv Coacb and Car Varnisbes and Colors. 124 CAKE. RIBBON CAKE. Beat together to a cream ^ cup butter and 2 of sugar; add 3 cups flour, into which has been sifted 2 teaspoonfuls of Cameo baking powder; stir in i cup milk and the whites of 6 eggs beaten to a froth. Bake in 3 layers and for the middle layer take out 4 table- spoonfuls of the mixture and add to it i tablespoonful of molasses, y^ cup flour, i cup chopped raisins, i^ tea- spoonful of cloves, ^ of soda, i teaspoonful of cinna- mon and the yolks of 2 eggs. Put this layer between the other 2 with jelly or soft icing and ice the top. Mrs. J. F. Dickson. BLACK AND WHITE CAKE. (Black Part.) Cream ^ cup butter and i of sugar; add y^ cup milk and the yolks of 4 eggs, well beaten; sift i tea- spoonful of Cameo baking powder with ij^ cup of flour and stir in, then i cup chopped raisins, i of currants, I teaspoonful of cloves, i of cinnamon, i of allspice and i^ a nutmeg. Bake y^ an hour, then pour over the top the following: WHITE PART. Cream ^ cup butter and i of sugar; add %, cup milk and the whites of 4 eggs, well beaten; sift i tea- spoonful of Cameo baking powder with i}4, cups of CAKE. 125 flour and add, pour this mixture over the black part and bake until done. Ice with boiled icing. Mrs. R. Longmire. POUND CAKE. Beat I pound butter to a cream and add i pound powdered sugar gradually. Beat 14 eggs without sepa- rating until very light and stir in, beating vigorously; add I pound sifted flour, }l teaspoonful mace and a wineglass of brandy

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