Spice Cake
From The new Kentucky home cook book, 1884
Serves 10
Presented as published in 1884. 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 The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 144. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
SPICE CAKE. Take the whites of twenty-four eggs, two pints of white sugar, one and one-fourth pint of butter, four pints of flour with one table-spoonful of flour taken out of each pint, one level tea-spoonful of baking-powder in each pint of flour. Sift the flour several times ; add one table-spoonful of cin- namon, one table-sj)oonful of allspice, one grated nutmeg. Mix the butter and sugar, and work until very light, then add the flour and whites last, Take one pint of the batter, stir in the above spices, have the mold greased and lined, put into the pint which is spiced three table-spoonfuls of cold The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. 283 water, stir well, and drop this in with the white batter, and you have a delicious cake. Mrs. George Hamilton. SPICE CAKE. Take four eggs, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of sweet milk, two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder, three cupfuls of flour, one-half of a grated nutmeg
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