Spice Cake
From Durham cook book ..., 1921
Leave out the whites of two eggs for icing.
Presented as published in 1921. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
SPICE CAKE. Two cups brown sugar, one cup sour cream, one cup butter, two cups flour, four eggs (leave out the Avhites of two for icing), two tablespoon- fuls cinnamon, one teaspoonful cloves, one teaspoonful nutmeg, one teaspoonful soda. Bake in layers and put together with white icing. — Mrs. J. S. Mesley. WHITE CAKE (OF COCOANUT.) Cream three-fourths cup butter, to it add one and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup sweet milk, two and one-half cups flour, whites of six eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Flavor to taste. Use cocoanut filling. — Mrs. J. S. Mesley. CHOCOLATE CAKE. One cup butter, tAvo cups sugar, two cups flour, one cup mashed Irish potatoes, one-half cup milk, one-half cuj) melted chocolate, one cup chopped nuts, four eggs, two teaspoonfuls Eoyal Baking Powder, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful cloves, one teaspoonful nutmeg, one tea- spoonful vanilla. — Mrs. G. F. Warner. FILLING FOE CHOCOLATE CAKE. One egg yolk, one cup sugar, one tablespoon butter, one cup SAveet milk, one-half cup melted chocolate. Cook until thick, then beat six marshmallows into it. — Mrs. G. F. Warner. YELLOW SPONGE CAKE. Four eggs beaten separately. Beat whites stiff and add two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, one and one-half cups sugar, then put in the yellows, one cup SAveet milk last, tAvo and one half cups flour Avith tAvo teaspoonfuls soda. Mix lightly and bake quickly.— rj\lRS. M. F. Markham. FEUIT CAKE. Eighteen eggs, one and one-half pounds flour, one and one- half pounds sugar, one and one-half pounds butter, tAvo pounds raisins, tAvo pounds currants, one and one half pounds citron, tAvo nutmegs, tAvo pounds almonds, tAvo tablespoonfuls cinnamon,
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