Prune Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 yolk
• 4 tablesp sour cream
• flour enough to make a thick batter
• 1 teasp soda
• 1/2 teasp cloves
• 1 teasp cinnamon
• 1/2 teasp nutmeg
• 1 cup stewed prunes

Method

1. 1

   Add sugar to the egg and yolk, then mix in sour cream and flour sifted with soda and spices.

2. 2

   Lastly, mix in chopped prunes.

3. 3

   Bake in layers and frost with egg white and sugar or use whipped cream.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Prune Cake ' \ To 1 cup sugar add 1 egg and 1 yolk, 4 tablesp sour cream, ; and flour enough to make a thick batter, sifted with 1 teasp \ each of soda and cinnamon, i/^ teasp cloves and % teasp nut- ' meg. Lastly mix in 1 cup stewed prunes pitted and chopped. • Bake in layers and put together with frosting made with the ; white of the egg and sugar, or use whipped cream. This is ex- j cellent. — [L. A. B. ! Blackberry Jam Cake Cream 1% cups sugar with ^^ cup shortening, add 3 eggs, i leaving out the white of one for the frosting, % cup sour milk, in which dissolve 1 scant teasp soda, 2^^ cups flour sifted with ^ 1 teasp cinnamon, and last of all I cup of blackberry jam, mix- ] ing it no more than necessary after adding jam. Sweet milk ! may be used instead of sour milk by leaving out the soda and j adding 1 teasp baking powder instead. This is a delicious I cake. — [Miss E. C, Ore. ; Strawberry Jam Cake ! Cream V2 cup butter with 1 cup brown sugar, add yolks \ 3 eggs, 5 tablesp sour milk or cream, in which dissolve 1 teasp soda

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