Spice Cake

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cupfuls butter
• 3 cupfuls sugar
• 6 cupfuls flour
• 6 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoonful cloves
• 1 1/4 teaspoonfuls cinnamon
• 1 1/2 teaspoonfuls nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoonful allspice
• 1 1/4 teaspoonfuls soda

Method

1. 1

   Sift the soda in the flour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Annie Dennis cook book (1905) by Annie E. Dennis, page 128. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 2 teaspoonful cloves teaspoonful cinnamon teaspoonful allspice small nutmeg teaspoonfuls baking powder % lb sweet and bitter Flour carefully the fruits and nuts before stirring in last. Blanch and pound the almonds. Cocoanut Cake 2 teacupfuls sifted flour % teacupful sweet milk 1 teacupful white sugar V2 teacupful butter 1 teacupful cocoanut 1 teaspoonful baking (grated) powder Sift the baking powder in the flour; cream sugar and butter together until very light ; add half the sweet milk, and when well mixed, add half the flour, then the balance of the milk and flour. Add the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, and lastly, the cup of cocoanut, well dredged in flour. Bake in a moderately hot oven. The cocoanut should be grated, sprinkled lightly with sugar, and set in the sun a few hours before using. Raisin Cake Make a good white cake batter ; dredge with flour, one and a half pounds of raisins, chopped, and stir into the batter just before baking. It will require more time than a plain white cake. 248 THE NEW ANNIE DENNIS COOK BOOK SPICE CAKE 11/4 cupfuls butter % teaspoonful cloves 3 cupfuls sugar 1^/4 beaspoonfuls cinnamon 6 cupfuls flour 1% teaspoonfuls nutmeg 6 eggs V2 teaspoonful allspice 114 teaspoonfuls soda

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