Sally Jewett Cake

Ingredients

• Three-quarters pound sugar
• one-half pound butter
• one cup molasses
• one cup milk
• five eggs
• one pound flour
• heaping teaspoon soda
• one pound raisins
• two tablespoons each cloves
• two tablespoons each cinnamon
• one nutmeg
• currants, citron
• wine glass brandy

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fish, Flesh and Fowl: A Cook Book of Valuable Recipes, All of which Have ... (1894) by Ladies of State Street Parish, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cup milk, four cups flour, four eggs, tea- spoon soda and one of cream tartar; bake in two sheets plain; for the third sheet, add two tablespoons molasses, one cup raisins, one cup currants, one-quarter pound citron, all kinds spices. Wet this sheet with the white of an egg and place between the light ones. Molasses, i. One cup molasses, two cups sugar, one-half cup butter or lard, teaspoon soda, one cup boiling water, salt and ginger. To be made soft and dropped from the spoon. 2. One pint molasses, six ounces butter, three well beaten eggs, one-half pint milk, one teaspoon soda; warm molasses enough to melt butter, dissolve soda in milk, mix, add eggs, thicken with flour to the consist- ency of pound cake. Flavor with lemon. 3. Drop. One cup molasses, one cup sugar, one cup warm water, teaspoon soda, flour enough to drop from a spoon, one tablespoon butter. 4. Mrs. Clark's. One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, two eggs, teaspoon cream tartar, half teaspoon soda, two cups flour, half cup milk. Mother Hubbard. One and one-half cups sugar, one cup butter, two cups flour, five eggs, one-half teaspoon baking powder, cream butter and add flour a little at a CAKE. 81 time, cream together; beat eggs and sugar very lightly; put baking powder in the flour, one teaspoon vanilla. It is nice with a little mace. Nice. One and one-half cups butter, one cup sugar, half cup milk, two cups flour, three eggs, teaspoon cream tartar, half teaspoon soda; beat the whites sep- arately and add just before going into the oven. Bake thirty minutes. Nut. One cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup milk, three and one half cups flour, three eggs, one-half tea- spoon soda, one teaspoon cream tartar, one pound Eng- lish walnuts, one pound stoned raisins. 2. Cream. Three-fourths cup butter, two cups sugar, three and one-fourth cups flour, three even tea- spoons baking powder, one cup milk, five eggs; bake in jelly cake tins. Make the filling as follows: — Whites of two eggs, one and one-half cups powdered sugar; put the eggs in a bowl, sprinkle in one tablespoon sugar; beat with a wire whisk five minutes, add the rest of the sugar gradually, a tablespoon at a time; when all is added and it is smooth and creamy, flavor and stir in three-fourths cup nuts chopped fine. Spread this icing between the layers; sprinkle each layer with nuts. Ice the top with plain icing and lay on whole or half nuts over all. 3. Golden. Cream three-fourths cup butter and one and one-half cups sugar together, add yolks of eight eggs, one whole egg beaten till thick, one-half cup milk, two cups of flour sifted with one and one-half teaspoons cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda, two teaspoons brandy, one cup chopped nuts slightly floured. Bake in individual pans; frost with golden 82 CAKE. frosting made as follows: — One yolk beaten slightly, one teaspoon wine; confectioners* sugar to make it stiff enough to spread. Orange. Cream three-fourths cup butter, add slowly two cups sugar, and cream together; into three cups sifted pastry flour mix two teaspoons baking powder; add one tablespoon of the prepared flour to the butter and sugar, then add four eggs, one at a time without first beating, with a tablespoon of the flour before breaking in each egg; then add the remainder of the flour alternating with one cupful of milk. Flavor with orange. Bake about forty minutes in a moderate oven. Orange Frosting: — Yolk of one egg, extract of orange, enough confectioners' sugar to make it thick enough to spread. Plain Raisin. One-half cup molasses, one cup sugar, one half cup butter, one-half cup sour milk, tea- spoon soda, two eggs; three cups flour. Raisins and spice. Piccolomini. Three cups sugar, one cup butter, rub to a cream; beat five eggs very light, and stir grad- ually into the mixture together with four full cups flour and one of sweet milk. Dissolve in a little warm water half teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream tartar, add nutmeg and wine glass rose water. Pound. Rub one pound sugar and three-quarters pound butter to a cream, add the well beaten yolks of ten eggs, then the whites, and stir in gradually a pound of sifted flour. Quick Cream Pie. Beat the whites of two eggs with one-half cup sugar, add the beaten yolks, two-thirds cup flour, one-half teaspoon cream tartar, one-fourth teaspoon soda (or one teaspoon baking powder). CAKE. 83 Bake in a round tin. Inside: — One-half pint milk, one eggt one-half cup sugar, one-fourth cup flour; cook until thick and flavor as preferred. Raised Loaf. One cup sugar (heaping), one-half cup butter, one egg, small piece of soda dissolved in a teaspoon of warm water, mace, cinnamon and nutmeg, two cups raised bread dougfi, one cup stoned raisins. Let it rise three hours before baking. Rice Flour. One cup butter, one cup sugar, five eggs, two cups rice flour. Rockland. One cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup milk, five eggs, half teaspoon soda, teaspoon cream tartar, four cups flour. Makes two loaves. Sally Jewett. Three-quarters pound sugar, one- half pound butter, one cup molasses, one cup milk, five eggs, one pound flour, heaping teaspoon soda, one pound raisins, two tablespoons each cloves and cinna- mon, one nutmeg, currants, citron, wine glass brandy. Silver. Two cups of sugar, two and one-half cups flour, one-half cup butter, three-quarters cup milk, whites of eight eggs, teaspoon cream tartar, half tea- spoon soda. Almond essence and chocolate frosting. 2. One and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup butter, three-fourths cup sweet milk, two cups flour, one teaspoon cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda, whites of four eggs, well beaten; flavor with vanilla; bake in a slow oven. Snow. One pound of sugar, three-quarters pound butter, one pound flour, whites of sixteen eggs, lemon or rose water. Spice. One cup butter, one and a half cups sugar, two-thirds cup milk, three eggs, three cups flour. 84 CAKE. one teaspoon each kind of spice, one cup raisins, one teaspoon soda, citron and currants if you choose. Bake in roll pans. Sponge. One cup sugar, one cup flour, four eggs, half teaspoon soda sifted in dr>'. 2. Three cups sugar, six eggs, one cup cold water, little salt, four cups flour, teaspoon soda, two tea- spoons cream tartar; beat the yolks and stir into sugar until smooth, then add the whites beaten light, then cold water with soda, then flour with cream tartar, two teaspoons lemon put in last. 3. Four eggs, one cup sugar, one cup flour; beat the whites stiff, then the sugar must be well beaten into the whites, add next the yolks previously well beaten, and just as you are ready to put into the oven, stir the flour in. Very nice. 4. Eight eggs, scant two cups flour, one teaspoon mace, beat whites and yolks separately, then together, then stir in two cups sugar, and then flour. Bake in quick oven. Nice. 5. Beat eight eggs very light, add one pound sugar, twelve ounces flour. Flavor with lemon or almond. Drop them on tins with teaspoon, sift sugar over them and bake in a quick oven. Trifles. One egg beaten thoroughly, one teaspoon salt, all the flour that can be kneaded in. Roll as thin as paper. Fry in hot lard. Walnut. One cup butter, two cups sugar, three and a half cups flour, two-thirds cup milk, three eggs, one cup chopped raisins, one cup walnuts, half teaspoon soda. Washington. One pound brown sugar, one-half pound butter

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