Prairie Cake

Ingredients

• One cupful of molasses
• one-half cupful of brown sugar
• one-half cupful of melted butter
• one teaspoonful each of cloves
• and cinnamon
• two teaspoonfuls of soda
• two and one-half cupfuls of flour
• yolks of four eggs well beaten
• for filling take ten tablespoonfuls of boiling water
• and two cupfuls of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Mix molasses, brown sugar, melted butter, cloves, cinnamon, and soda in boiling water.

2. 2

   Add flour and beaten yolks of four eggs last.

3. 3

   For filling, boil ten tablespoons of water with two cups of sugar until it will hair, then pour over beaten whites of four eggs and chopped raisins.

4. 4

   Mix and spread at once over layers and on top.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 9 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 169. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PRAIRIE CAKE. (Excellent.) One cupful of molasses, one-half cupful of brown sugar, one-half cup- ful of melted butter, one teaspoonful each of cloves and cinnamon, tvv-o teaspoonfuls of soda in one cupful of boiling water, two and one-half cup fuls of flour, yolks of four eggs well beaten and added last; for filling take ten tablespoonfuls of boiling water and two cupfuls of sugar

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