Spice Cake

Ingredients

• Sour civiini, y2 cup
• Sugar, 1 cup (scant)
• Shortening, 1 teaspoon (heaping)
• Salt, 1 teaspoon
• Egg, 1
• Flour, iy2 cups
• Ginger, y* teaspoon
• Molasses, y2 tablespoon
• Cinnamon, 14 teaspoon
• Raisins, y2 cup
• Clove, 14 teaspoon
• Nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon

Method

1. 1

   Mix in order given sifting dry ingredients together.

2. 2

   Flour raisins and add last.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mary Jane's cook book (1916) by Mary Jane, Sophie D. Coe, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon. Clove and nutmeg, 1 teaspoon each. Cream butter and sugar. Dissolve soda in a little .warm" water and add to apple sauce. Lastly stir in flour mixed and sifted with spices. Mae D., Winthrop. CAKE AND FILLINGS 51 GERMAN APPLE CAKE. Flour, 2 cups. Butter, y2 cup. Baking powder, 2 teaspoons. Salt, 1 teaspoon. Egg, 1. Milk, i/2 cup. Apples. Sift flour, salt and baking powder, rub in butter and stir in well beaten egg and milk. Grease a large shallow pan and spread the dough over it y2 inch thick. Pare and core apples and cut in eighths. Press them into the dough in close even rows, spread with butter, sprinkle thickly with sugar and cinnamon or nutmeg and bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes. GINGER GEMS. Butter, 2 tablespoons. Powdered mace, 1 teaspoon. Sugar, 1 cup. Sour cream or milk, 1 cup. Molasses, 1 cup. Baking soda, 1 teaspoon. Chopped preserved ginger, 2 Flour, 5 cups. tablespoons. Put the butter, sugar and molasses in a saucepan and warm slightly but do not allow to melt. Beat well for 10 minutes. Add the ginger, mace and gradually the sour cream or milk. Sift the soda with the flour twice and add to mixture. Fill buttered and floured gem pans 2-3 full and bako in a hot oven. PINEAPPLE CAKE. Flour, 1/2 pound. -taking powder, 1 teaspoon. Butter, 14 pound. Crystallized pineapple, 1/4 pound. Eggs, 3. Almonds, 1 ounce. Sugar, 1/2 pound. Essence of pineapple, few drops. Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten eggs, pineapple chopped coarsely, shredded almonds and flour and baking powder sifted together. Mix thoroughly and bake in moderate oven. Mrs. M. N. 0. P., Boston. 52 CAKE AND FILLINGS BISQUE CAKE. Powdered sugar, 2 cups. Flour, 3 cups. Butter, 1 scant cup. Egg whites, 5. Milk, 1 cup. Baking powder, 1 teaspoon. Vanilla. Cream butter and sugar, stir in milk, add flour and baking powder sifted together, and fold in very lightly the stiffly beaten egg whites. Flavor and bake in 3 layers. ICING : Egg yolks, 5. Hickory nuts, 1 cup. Confectioner's sugar. Vanilla. Beat egg yolks thoroughly and add enough sugar to make stiff enough to spread. Chop nuts fine and add with a drop of vanilla. M. I. L., Eoxbury. COCOA CAKE. Sugar, 1 cup. Sour milk, 1 cup. Lard or butter, 4 teaspoons. Soda, 1 teaspoon. Salt, a pinch. Flour, 1% cups. Dry cocoa, y2 cup. Vanilla, y2 teaspoon. Cream sugar and shortening together. Add sour milk, soda dissolved in a little hot water and dry ingredients mixed and sifted together. Lastly add flavoring. For icing add a small piece of butter to confectioner's sugar and mix with a little hot milk. Add a handful of walnut meats chopped. POTATO CHOCOLATE CAKE. Mashed potatoes, 1 cup. Nut meats, 1 cup. Flour, 2 cups. Baking powder, 3y2 teaspoons. Eggs, 4. Chocolate, 2 squares. Sugar, 2 cups. Shortening, 2-3 cup. Milk, y2 cup. Cinnamon and nutmeg, 1 tea- spoon. Clove, 1/2 teaspoon. Cream shortening and sugar, add hot mashed potatoes, well beaten eggs, melted chocolate and milk. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and spices and add. Lastly stir in chopped nut meats. CAKE AND FILLINGS 53 SPICE CAKE. Sour civiini. y2 cup. Clove, 14 teaspoon. Sugar, 1 cup (scant). Nutmeg, y2 teaspoon. Shortening. 1 teaspoon (heap- Salt, y2 teaspoon, ing). Soda, y2 teaspoon. Egg, 1. Flour, iy2 cups. Ginger, y* teaspoon. Molasses, y2 tablespoon. Cinnamon. 14 teaspoon. Raisins, y2 cup. Mix in order given sifting dry ingredients together. Flour raisins and add last. M. C. N., Danvers. MOLASSES ORANGE CAKE. Butter, 1/2 cup. Pastry flour, 2 cups. Molasses, 1 cup. Salt, 1 teaspoon

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