Sour Milk Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup of sour milk or cream
• tablespoon each of nutmeg
• allspice
• mace
• cinnamon
• cloves
• Cream butter
• and sugar
• 4 eggs
• Add milk
• soda

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar.

2. 2

   Break the eggs over it and beat.

3. 3

   Add milk and soda, and gradually put in flour and spices.

4. 4

   Drop with spoon in pans and ice with white icing flavored with lemon.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Blue grass cook book (1904) by Minnie C. Fox, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

soda in 1 cup of sour milk or cream, ^ tablespoon each of nutmeg, allspice, mace, cin- namon, and cloves. Cream butter and sugar. Break the 4 eggs over it and beat. Add milk and soda, and put in grad- ually flour and the spices. Drop with spoon in pans and ice with white icing and flavor with lemon. 265 THE BLUE GRASS COOK BOOK ALLEGHANY TEA CAKES 1 pound butter, 1 pound sugar, 8 eggs, 1;| pounds flour. Rub butter and sugar together, and add by de- grees the well-beaten eggs and the flour. Flavor to taste. Drop with spoon on well-greased tin pans. GERMAN TEA CAKES Mrs. W. W. Massie Hard-boiled yolks of 10 eggs, rubbed finely through a sieve, % raw eggs, beaten, 1 pound of butter, 1 pound of sugar, 1 tablespoon of whisky. Flour enough to make a very soft dough. Sprinkle sugar over each rolling of dough. Cut in fancy shapes. 9.m CAKES TEA CAKES (No. 1) Mrs. H. C. McDowell 4 eggs beaten separately, 1 teacup of lard, 2 heaping teacups of brown sugar, 1 scant half cup of sour milk in which dissolve level teaspoons of soda, 1 grated nutmeg, 1 teaspoon lemon extract. Flour enough to roll out. Bake in rather hot oven. TEA CAKES (No. 2) Miss Virgmia Croxton 1 quart flour, 6 ounces butter, f pound sugar, 3 eggs, 9, heaping teaspoons baking-powder. Flavor with vanilla or cinnamon

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