Ruth's Cake

Ingredients

• One cupful sugar
• one-half cup butter
• one cupful sour milk
• one teaspoonful soda
• one-half nutmeg
• one teaspoonful cinnamon
• one cupful chopped raisins
• two and one-half cupfuls flour
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Combine all ingredients and bake until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 99. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RUTH'S CAKE. One cupful sugar, one-half cup butter, one capful sour milk, one teaspoonful soda, one-half nutmeg, one teaspoonful cinna- mon, one cupful chopped raisins, two and one-half cupfuls flour, a little salt. No NAME CAKE. One scant cup of butter, one cupful of brown sugar, one-fourth cup inilk, one cupful molasses, three cupfuls flour, two eggs, one- half teaspoouful of soda, one cupful currants, one-half pound of citron, one and one-half pounds of seedless raisins, one teaspoon- ful each cloves and cinnamon, one-half nutmeg; add more fruit if you wish. Bake in bread pans from two to three hours, COLD WATER CAKE. One cupful of butter, two cupfuls brown sugar, three cupfuls flour, one cupful cold water, three eggs, well beaten, one tea- spoonful soda, one teaspoonful cloves, one nutmeg, one table- spoonful cmiiamou, one cupful raisins or currants. • COFFEE CAKE, (No, 1,) Two cupfuls brown sugar, one cupful butter, one cupful mo- lasses, one cupful strong coffee, as prepared for the table, four 166 CAKE. eggs, one teaspoonful saleratus, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon

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