Poverty Cake

Ingredients

• One egg
• one-half cup sugar
• one-half cup molasses
• one-half cup butter
• one-half cup milk
• salt to suit
• one cup chopped raisins
• one teaspoon saleratus
• flour to thicken

Method

1. 1

   Mix ingredients and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 94. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

One-half cup butter, one cup sugar, two eggs, one cup milk, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder. For mid- dle layer add two heaping teaspoons of cocoa and one-fourth cup raisins finely cut. Jessie L. Webster. Miss Parloa's Ice Cream Cake. One cup butter, one and one-half cups sugar, two cups flour, one-half cup milk, whites of five eggs, two level teaspoon- fuls baking powder, one-half teaspoonful vanilla. Bake twenty- five minutes in a moderate oven (a hot oven makes a cake coarse and tough). Sprinkle sugar on a cake that is not to be iced on putting into the oven. Beat very little after the flour is worked in. A little water set in the oven gives a moister cake. Banana Cake. One cupful sugar, one-half cup butter, one and one-half cupfuls flour, one-half cup sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls bak- ing powder, whites of four eggs, flavor to suit. Use boiled frosting and put sliced bananas between the layers. Mrs. Chetister. New Century Cook Book. 185 Snicker Doodles. Two cups of sugars, two eggs, one-half cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, one teaspoon of soda, two teaspoons of cream tartar, sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top and bake in a drip- ping pan. Cake Without Butter. One cup sugar, two eggs, one cup boiling water, one cup flour, two teaspoons of baking powder, vanilla, mix sugar and eggs together, water and flour. Mrs. Russell. Layer Cake. One cup sugar, small one-half cup butter, yolks of three eggs, one cup milk, one and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, lastly add the well beaten whites of three eggs. Filling. — One cup sugar, two tablespoons water, let boil until it drops heavy, pour slowly into the white of one egg beaten stiff, beat all together until cold, then add one-half cup chopped raisins, one-half cup chopped almonds, three tablespoons cocoa- nut, one teaspoon flavoring. Mrs. B. F. Moon. Corn Starch Cake. Whites of seven eggs, two coffee cups of sugar, one coffee cup of butter, one coffee cup of corn starch, beat the sugar, but- ter and corn starch to a cream, one cup of milk, twro cups of flour, beat all ten or fifteen minutes. Cold Water Cake. Three cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup cold water, six eggs, beaten separately, two teaspoons baking powder, four cups flour. Miss Ray, Belvidere, 111. Cake Without Butter, Flour or Milk. Seven eggs, one pound dates, cut tine, half pound almonds ground, one cup sugar, rind of one lemon, beats eggs separate, stir whites in last thing, mix sugar and yolks of eggs together first, save enough whole dates to put on top of cake after frosting. Mrs. Farnum. One Egg Cake. One cup sugar, one tablespoon butter, three-fourths cup of milk, one egg, one large teaspoon of baking powder, flour enough to thicken, 186 New Century Cook Book. Sally Lunn. One cup sugar, two eggs, butter size of an egg, one pint of flour, one cup sweet milk, one and one-half teaspoon baking powder, one pint berries. Mrs. H. N. Mudge. Poverty Cake. One egg, one-half cup sugar, one- half cup molasses, one- half cup butter, one-half cup milk and salt to suit, one cup chopped raisins, one teaspoon saleratus, flour to thicken

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