RIBBON CAKE
From Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .., 1902
Spread layers with jelly.
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This recipe was extracted from Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .. (1902) by Marion Harland, page 83. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
RIBBON CAKE. Two cupfuls of sugar, one of butter, one of milk, four of flour (rather scant), four eggs, half a teaspoonful of soda, one of cream of tartar. Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar gradually, beating all the while; then the flavoring (lemon or nutmeg). Beat the eggs very light. Add them and the milk. Measure the flour after it has been sifted. Return it to the sieve, and mix the soda and cream of tartar with it. Sift this into the bowl of beaten ingredients. Beat quickly and vigorously, to thoroughly mix, and then stop. Take three sheet pans of the same size, and in each of two pat one-third of the mixture, and bake. To the other third add four'teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, a cupful of currants (tad about an eighth of a pound of citron
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