"Rebecca" Cake

Ingredients

• one cup of granulated sugar
• one-half cup of butter (scant)
• one beaten egg
• one cup of sweet milk
• one pint of flour
• two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• one teaspoonful of cinnamon
• one teaspoonful of cloves
• one teaspoonful of all-spice

Method

1. 1

   Sift ingredients three times and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 158. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful each of cloves and allspice, and one-fourth of a nutmeg, grated, one-half pint of seeded raisins, one-half cup of currants, one-half teaspoonful of soda. Mix in order named; dissolve soda in one tablespoonful of hot water and add last. Bake in slow oven. Delicious. Plantation Recipe— Cloe. CAKES. 219 DRIED APPLE PIE. Soak four cups of dried apples over night in cold water; in the morn- ing drain and chop fine; stew till clear in two cups of syrup. Use one cup of brown sugar, one cup of buttermilk, three-quarters of a cup of butter, two eggs, one tablespoonful of soda, one tablespoonful of mixed spices and one nutmeg, grated; stir quite stiff and bake slowly. Add any kind of fruit you like or a pound of raisins. Mrs. M. E. Hilton. LOAF FIG CAKE. One cup of butter, one cup of sugar, one cup of milk, the whites of three eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder and flour to make dough. Wash and split one-half pound of figs; put in a deep pan a layer of dough, then one of figs. Alternate till all are used and bake in a moderate oven. Mrs. J. E. Taintor. HONEY CAKE. Stir one-half pint of sour cream into a pint of flour. Add one-half teaspoonful of ground ginger, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon, two tablespoonfuls of sugar and honey; mix thoroughly and when the cake is ready for the oven, add one-half teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in small quantity of hot water. Beat again for a few minutes, pour the mixture into a buttered mold, and bake in a good oven. This cake may be eaten warm if wished. Mrs. Henrietta Colby. GRAHAM CAKE. Take one cup each of raisins, sugar and sour cream; stew raisins till tender and add flour to them; one-half teaspoonful of soda, a pinch of salt, two eggs; stir stiff with sifted graham flour and bake. An excellent cake. M. A. C. BLACK CAKE. Three pounds of butter, three pounds of flour, three pounds of sugar, six pounds of currants, four pounds of raisins, two pounds of citron, one ounce of cinnamon, one ounce of mace, one nutmeg, thirty eggs, one pint of wine. Mrs. M. Garribrant. MOTHER'S TIP-TOP CAKE. One and one-half cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, the whites of three eggs beaten stiff, two and one-half cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder; flavor to suit. A. V. HOLCOMB. 220 CAKES, WHITE LOAF CAKE. One and one-half cups of pulverized sugar, one-half cup of butter, one and one-half cups 'of flour, one-half cup of corn-starch, one-half cup of sweet milk; two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder; flavor with a few drops of lemon or vanilla extract, whites of six eggs. Mrs. A. P. Lyon. "REBECCA" CAKE. One cup of granulated sugar, one-half cup of butter (scant), one beaten ^gg, one cup of sweet milk; then add one pint of flour, two tea- spoonfuls of baking-powder, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves, all- spice; sift three times. Miss M. Rusk. LINCOLN CAKE. Two eggs, two cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one cup of milk, three cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.