Spice Cake

Ingredients

• one and a half cups sugar
• a generous half cup of butter
• one cupful of half milk and half water
• the well beaten yolks of three eggs
• two heaping teaspoons ground cinnamon
• one-half teaspoon ground cloves
• one-half teaspoon allspice
• a pinch of ginger and salt
• one half grated nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Serve the cake hot immediately when it comes from the oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kirmess cook book (1907), page 184. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPICE CAKE. Mrs, Ralph Stauffen, Providence, R. L Two cups brown sugar, one cup butter, one and one- third cups milk, four eggs, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, one teaspoonful cloves, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one cup of chopped raisins, four small cups of flour. SPICE CAKE. Mrs. W, A. Durrie. Two-thirds cup of butter, one cup of sugar, one-half cup of milk, two cups of flour, one egg, chopped rai- sins, one tablespoon of cinnamon and cloves, one tea- spoon of soda. SPICE CAKE. Mrs, Wilbur Smith, Batavia, N, Y. Cream, four tablespoonfuls of butter, add one square of chocolate, grated, one cup of sugar, beat well, add yolks of two eggs, one-half cup of water, one and a quarter cups of flour, mixed hard, sifted, with one tea- spoonful of cinnamon, one-quarter teaspoonful of cloves, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Stir in lightly whites of two eggs, beaten stiffly. INDIA CAKE. SPICE CAKE. Mrs, T, K, Egbert, New Yorh Half a cup of butter, half a cup of sugar, half a cup of molasses, half a cup of sweet milk, one and one-half cups of flour, one small teaspoon of cinnamon, one small teaspoon of cloves, one teaspoon of baking soda, two eggs. First mix butter and sugar together, then pour in the molasses slowly, the yolks of two ^gs, one at a time, then add the milk slowly, stirring all the time, then add the spices, then tlie baking soda, DESSERTS. 431 then the flour, lastly the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Bake in layer cake pans and spread the icing between the layers. ICING FOR INDIA CAKE. Three tablespoons of sugar to the white of one egg, beaten to a stifiE foam; flavor with vanilla. SPIOE CAKE. Mrs, Saml. Drayton. One and a half cups sugar, and a generous half cup of butter creamed together ; add the well beaten yolks of three eggs, one cupful of half milk and half water^ and then spices as follows: two heaping teaspoons ground cinnamon, one-half teaspoon ground cloves (scant), and one-half teaspoon allspice, a pinch of ginger and salt, and one half grated nutmeg

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