Ribbon Cake - Yellow Part

Ingredients

• yolks of twelve eggs
• four and one-half cups of flour
• two cups of sugar
• one cup of sweet milk
• one cup of butter
• two teaspoons of baking powder
• one-half pound of chopped raisins
• half pound of figs
• half pound of nuts
• one teaspoon of cloves
• one teaspoon of spice
• one grated nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Bake two yellow layers.

2. 2

   Add to what is left one-half pound of chopped raisins, half pound of figs, half pound of nuts (reserve half of fruit to use later in icing).

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 14 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 87. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, four cups of flour, one cup of milk, two teaspoons of baking powder. Divide and color part pink. Yellow Part. — Yolks of twelve eggs, four and one-half cups of flour, two cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, one cup of butter, two teaspoons of baking powder. Bake two yel- HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. 151 low layers. Add to what is left one-half pound of chopped raisins, half pound of figs, half pound of nuts (reserve half of fruit to use later in icing), one teaspoon each of cloves, spice, one grated nutmeg

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