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Spice Cake

From The new practical housekeeping, 1890

Serves 5

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Spice Cake. (Without Eggs.) — One heapifigcup sugar, one-half cup butter, one and one-half cups sour milk, one teaspoon each cin- namon, cloves and nutmeg, one cup fruit, one teaspoon soda ; stir in flour until it will just drop from the spoon. Spice Cake. — Three eggs, one cup butter, one cup brown sugar, four cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder

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