Spanish Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup Crisco
• 3 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 3 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cream Crisco with sugar.

2. 2

   Beat eggs separately.

3. 3

   Add beaten yolks to the mixture.

4. 4

   Beat with egg beater.

5. 5

   Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon and vanilla.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delicacies (1929) by Thursday Club (San Diego, Calif.), page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Spanish Cake 1 cup Crisco 3 cups flour 2 cups sugar 1 tsp. baking powder 1 cup milk 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. vanilla 1. Cream Crisco with sugar. 2. Beat eggs separately. 3. Add beaten yolks to 1. Beat with egg beater. 4. Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon and vanilla. — Mrs. George Edwards. Potato Flour Cake Beat whites of 4 eggs 2 minutes. Add V2 cup sugar and beat 2 minutes more. Beat yolks of 4 eggs 3 minutes. Add ~j cup sugar and beat 3 minutes. Combine whites and yolks and add \ 2 cup potato flour, 1 tsp. baking powder and 1 tsp. vanilla. Bake in 2 layers in slow oven for 15 minutes. Serve with whipped cream or cover with butter frosting. —Mrs. C. H. Perdue. „ Surprise Cake ups flour 1 cup nuts 1 cup sugar 1-3 cup Crisco melted and 3 tbsp. chocolate cooled T4 isp. salt 2 eggs in cup and fill cup Sift together twice with milk- Pour eggs and milk over flour, add Crisco and nuts, 1 heaping tsp. baking powder in some flour added last. — Mrs. Chester Cleator. Prune Cake 2 tbsp. shortening 1 tsp. cloves 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. nutmeg 1 cup chopped prunes 1 tsp. soda (dissolved in up prune juice tsp. warm water) up flour 2 eggs well beaten 1 tsp. cinnamon Hake in two layers in rather slow oven. Boiled frosting or whipped cream may be used. — Mrs. Robert Lee Daniel. —103- Cakes Thursday Club Delicacies Burnt Sugar Cake Beat l/2 cup Crisco, pinch salt to cream, add gradually \y2 cup sugar. Yolks 2 eggs and 1 cup warm water. 2 cups flour. Beat five minutes. Add three teaspoons burnt sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, y> cup flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Last add the whites of two eggs unbeaten. The success of this cake is the thorough beating. Bake in 2 layers. FILLING. Melt 1 tablespoon butter, 2 tablespoons cream. 4 tablespoons burnt sugar, \y2 cups powdered sugar. Vanilla 2 cups burnt sugar, cook until it burns, stirring constantly. When it becomes a black syrup take from fire. Add one cup of hot water, let boil a minute. Seal in jar — keeps indefin- itely. —Mrs. H. L. Frisbie. Coffee Spice Cake Yz cup butter or 2 tsp. baking powder substitute 1-3 tsp. salt 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. ground cinnamon 2 eggs *4 tsp. ground nutmeg Yz cup strong coffee % tsp. ground cloves 1/4 cups flour Cream the butter and sugar together until light, separate the eggs and beat and add yolks, then the coffee alternately with flour, baking powder, salt and spices sifted together. Last of all, fold in the whites of eggs which have been beaten until stiff. Bake in a well-oiled, shallow pan in a moderate oven 350 to 375 degrees F. 30 to 40 minutes. Serve plain or frosted. — Mrs. Alden J. Fulkerson. White Layer Cake 2-3 cup shortening (cream 3 cups flour thoroughly) y2 tsp. salt 2 cups sugar (cream again) 3 tsp. baking powder (10 minutes) 1 tsp. vanilla y2 cup milk 5 egg whites beaten light y2 cup water and folded in last Bake in 3 layers in moderate oven. — Mrs. Alden J. Fulkerson. —104— Thursday Club Delicacies Cakes ~)k Yellow Cake Y\ cupful butter or 4 level teaspoonfuls baking substitute powder 1^ cupfuls sugar 3 eggs

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