Spice Cake

Name: Spice Cake
Ingredients: 4 yolks of eggs; 2 cups brown sugar; 1/2 cup melted butter; 1/2 cup sour milk; 2 cups flour; 1 teaspoon soda; 2 teaspoons cinnamon; 1/2 teaspoon cloves; 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

From The Edwardsville cook book, 1906

Icing: Use the remaining whites; boil till it threads, 2 cups brown sugar with enough water to wet it, then pour into the beaten whites; flavor with vanilla. Beat until cold.

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This recipe was extracted from The Edwardsville cook book (1906), page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPICE CAKE. Mrs. Geo. D. Shaffer. 4 yolks of eggs. *2 cups brown sugar. V2 cup melted bu ’ "''.r Y2 cup sour milk. 2 cups flour. 1 teaspoon soda. 2 teaspoons cinnamon. Y2 teaspoon cloves. Y2 teaspoon nutmeg. SPLCE CAKE. Mrs. G. B. Crane, Chicago, Illinois. 2 cups brown sugar. V2 cup butter. 2 cups flour. 1 level teaspoon baking soda. 4 eggs. 1 cup sour milk. 1 nutmeg, grated. 1 teaspoon ground cloves. 1Y2 teaspoon ground cinnamon. Beat the sugar, butter, yolks of 4 and whites of 2 eg^^ to- gether, smooth, then add the milk, spices and flour into' .^nch the soda has been sifted. Bake in 3 layers. Icing: — Use the remaining wiiites ; boil till it threads, 2 cups brown sugar with water enough to wet it (about cup), then pour into the beaten whites ; flavor with vanilla. Beat until cold. SPICE CAKE. Miss Alice Fangenroth. Mrs. Mary Bley Dripps. Y2 cup sugar. Y2 cup butter. 214 cups flour. 2 eggs. 1 cup molasses. Add the 2 eggs, well beaten. 1 teaspoon ginger. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 1 teaspoon cloves. 2 teaspoons soda, dissolved in 1 cup boiling water. last thing before baking. SPICE CAKE. Mrs. A. G. Tuxhorn. 1 cup brown sugar. 1 cup molasses. 1 teaspoon ext. nutmeg. 1 teaspoon ext. cinnamon. 1 teaspoon ground cloves. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 1 cup butter. 1 cup niilk. 3 eggs. 4 cups flour. 4 CAKES. 3 29 SPICE CAKE. Mrs. A. L. Brown. % cup butter. 2 small cups brown sugar. 3 cups flour. V2 lb. citron. 1 cup sour milk. Y2 teaspoon soda. 1 cup raisins. 2 1 cup molasses. 1 cup butter. 1 cup sour milk.

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