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Silver Cake

From Temperance cook book, 1887

Serves 5

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 104. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SILVER CAKE. Two cups of sugar, three-fourths cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, three and one-half cups of flour, three small tea- spoonfuls of Equity baking-powder, one teaspoonful of vanilla, whites of eight eggs

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