Spice Cake

Ingredients

• one egg
• two-thirds of a cupful of molasses
• two-thirds of a cupful of sugar
• two-thirds of a cupful of butter
• one cupful of milk
• two cupfuls and a half of flour
• two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• one tablespoonful of mixed spice
• one tablespoonful of lemon juice
• a little of the grated rind

Method

1. 1

   Beat together egg, molasses, sugar, butter, milk, flour with baking powder, mixed spice, lemon juice, and grated rind.

2. 2

   Bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .. (1904) by Elisabeth Luther Cary, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one of salt. Beat three eggs, yolks and whites separately, and into the yolks stir three cups of milk, a tablespoonful of melted butter and a pint of huckleberries, well dredged with an additional cup of flour. Beat for two or three minutes, add the whites of the eggs and bake in patty pans. 123 JULY I5TH "I protest I do honor a chine of beef, I do rever- ence a loin of veal." — Beaumont and Fletcher ("Woman Hater"). A LOIN of veal is a dish worthy of reverence, and if properly cooked it is suited to ordinary digestions, despite its bad name. Remove the bone from the meat; season the latter highly with salt and pepper, and skewer into shape. Cover with sheets of buttered white paper tied around it. Fry a few slices of pork, a sliced onion, and three tablespoonfuls of flour until brown. Add three pints of water and a cup of stewed tomatoes. Place the veal in a roasting- pan, pour the gravy around it, and cook in a slow oven three hours and a half. It will be both tender and savory. Remove^ the sheets of paper after the first hour. JULY i6th "'Very well,' I cried, 'that's a good girl. I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go and help your mother to make the goose- berry-pie.' " — Goldsmith ("Vicar of Wakefield")- GOOSEBERRIES make a very good tart, especially if combined with currant juice. Choose ber- ries that are not over-ripe, put in a pre- 124 serving kettle with half a pint of cur- rant juice to each pound of berries. When they begin to boil, crush them with a spoon and add sugar in the proportion of three-quarters of a pound to a pound of fruit. Simmer slowly for five or six hours. Fill pie-crust shells and put a lattice of crust over the top. JULY I7TH "When he actually refused currant and rasp- berry tart — ^the good Hannah was alarmed.'' — Thackeray ("The Newcomes")* LINE a pie-dish with paste, wash it over with white of egg and fill with currants and raspberries, carefully picked over. Sweeten lavishly and cover with strips of the pastry crossed in a lattice pattern. Bake half an hour in a good oven. JULY i8th "The odor of that spicy cake came back upon my recollection." — Charles Lamb ("Essays of EUa"). FOR a Spice cake beat together one egg, two-thirds of a cupful each of molasses, sugar, and butter, one cupful of milk, two cupfuls and a half of flour, into which has been sifted two 12S teaspoonfuls of baking powder; one ta- blespoonful of mixed spice, and one tablespoonful of lemon juice and a little of the grated rind

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