Spice Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 C. butter
• 1/2 C. sour milk
• 1 C. sugar
• 14 C. molasses
• 2 eggs
• V2 t. soda
• y2 C. currants
• 2 C. pastry flour
• i2 C. raisins
• % t. cloves
• 1 t. cinnamon
• % t. allspice

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add sugar, egg well beaten, molasses and sour milk.

2. 2

   Mix and sift dry ingredients, add to mixture.

3. 3

   Bake in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Worcester domestic science school's one year course laboratory cook book (1914) by Worcester domestic science school, Worcester, Mass., page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPICE CAKE. 1/2 C. butter % C. sour milk 1 C. sugar 14 C. molasses 2 eggs V2 t. soda y2 C. currants 2 C. pastry flour i2 C. raisins % t. cloves 1 t. cinnamon % t. allspice Cream butter, add sugar, egg well beaten, molasses and sour milk. Mix and sift dry ingredients, add to mixture. Bake in moderate oven. Cakes and Other Pastry BANANA SHORTCAKE. 1-3 cup butter 4 bananas 1 cup sugar Meringue y2 cup milk Cream filling 1% cups flour 2 eggs 2!/2 t. baking powder Cream butter, add sugar, then egg yolks, flour and baking-powder sifted, and milk. Alternate flour and milk. Bake in square cake-pan. Place bananas, when done, on tops, cut in halves lengthening, then quarters. Cover with thick custard filling and meringue. Use two egg whites, 14 cup sugar. Place meringue on top with pastry-bag. Brown in oven. LEMON SNAPS. y2. cup butter % t. soda 1 cup sugar Flour to roll 2 eggs Juice y2 lemon Cream butter; add sugar, eggs well beaten, lemon juice, soda mixed with flour. Boll thin and shape. Bake. GOLD CAKE. % cup butter 2 t. baking powder 1 cup sugar y2 cup milk 4 yolks I/2 t. orange or lemon 1% cups flour extract Cream butter, add sugar gradually; egg yolks well beaten, flavor- ing. Sift baking-powder with flour; add alternately with milk. WHITE CAKE. 1 cup sugar 1% cup flour 3 egg whites y2 cup milk IV2 t. baking powder 1 t. vanilla 1-3 cup butter Cream butter, add sugar, beat till light, add flour sifted with bak- ing-powder; alternate with milk, add vanilla; beat, fold in egg whites beaten. SOUR CREAM COOKIES. 2 eggs 1 cup sour milk or cream 1 cup sugar y2 t. soda Flour to make soft Dough to be rolled 214 THE WORCESTER DOMESTIC SCIENCE SCHOOL. Beat eggs till light, add sugar, a little flour mixed with soda. Milk. Alternate milk and Hour. Roll y8 inch thick. Bake till brown. PORK CAKE. 2 cups salt pork, chopped 1 T. cloves 1 cup seeded raisins y2 cup boiling water 1 cup currants poured over pork, or y2 lb. citron i/> cup coffee 6 cups Horn- 1 T. soda 12 cups sugar 1 enp molasses 1 T. cinnamon Hake in slow oven JELLY KOLL. 3 eggs 1 cup Hour 1 enp sugar 1 t. cream of tartar L-3 enp milk y2 t. soda 1-16 1. salt Beat eggs till light, add sugar, sift Hour and cream of tartar and soda, add alternately with milk. Bake in large pan. While warm spread with jelly and roll light. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Cut edges oil' with sharp kuife if hard. CURRANT CAKE. 1 g cup butter 2 cups Hour 1 cup sugar :» t. baking powder L* eggs 1 cup currants 1 e*^ yolk mixed with 1 T. Hour 1 2 cup milk Cream butter, add sugar, eggs well beaten, sift Hour and baking- powder, add alternately with milk. Add currants last. Bake in individual tins or loaf. PEANUT COOKIES. 4 T. butter 4 T. milk y2 cup sugar y2 t. salt 2 egg yolks 1 t. lemon juice 1 cup flour 1% t. baking powder 12 cups chopped peanuts Cream butter, add sugar gradually, add egg yolks well beaten, milk and salt. Sift baking powder with Hour and beat thoroughly. Add lemon juice. Roll ys inch thick. Cover with chopped peanuts. Hake in slow oven 12 min. ORNAMENTAL FROSTING. Whites 3 eggs 1 T. lemon juice LABORATORY COOK BOOK. 215 Confectioner's sugar sifted. Put eggs in bowl, add 2 T. sugar, beat until thick, add more sugar and lemon juice very slowly, con- tinue beating, add sugar by spoonfuls until stiff enough to spread. Insert knife in mixture; if knife makes a clean cut it is of right consistency to hold its shape. Use pastry bag and tube. WALNUT CAKE. Y2 cup butter l1/^ cup flour 1 cup sugar 2y2 t. baking powder y2 cup milk Yolks 3 eggs % cup walnuts Whites 2 eggs Cream butter, add sugar slowly, add egg yolks well beaten. Sift baking powder with flour and add alternately with milk. Keserve y± cup flour and put with nuts. Add floured nuts and fold in beaten egg whites. Bake in moderate oven 45 min. Cover with frosting. Put walnuts on top. SPONGE DEOPS. 8 egg whites 1 -3 cup flour 1-3 cup conf. sugar % t. vanilla 2 egg yolks Vs t- sa^ Beat egg whites till dry, add sugar gradually, continue beating, add yolks beaten till thick. Mix flour and salt, cut and fold in cover pan with buttered paper. Drop mixture from spoon or shape with pastry bag and tube. Sprinkle with confectioner's sugar. Bake in hot oven. Keniove quickly from paper with sharp knife. SWEET MILK DOUGHNUTS. 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 4 cups pastry flour 2 t. cream tartar 1 t. soda 1 t. salt % t. nutmeg or ginger 1 cup milk 1 t. butter or lard Mix flour, cream tartar, soda, salt and nutmeg, reserving 1 cup flour. Beat eggs well, add sugar, alternately add flour and milk, add melted butter or lard, beat well. Add last cup flour, or portion, as needed, and beat thoroughly. Boll out only portion at a time % iuch thick. Cut and fry in deep fat. The amount of flour varies slightly with the brand. BANANA FKITTEBS. 1 C. flour 1 egg yolk 1 t. baking powder 1 egg white % t. salt 1/2 t. melted butter 1/2 C. milk 216 THE WORCESTER DOMESTIC SCIENCE SCHOOL. Sift dry ingredients, add milk slowly, yolk of eggs beaten well, white of egg beaten stiff, and melted butter. Keinove skins from banan- as, cut in half lengthwise, then in half crosswise. Dip in batter and fry in deep fat. Serve with lemon or orange sauce. MOLASSES COOKIES. 1 C. molasses 1 tsp. soda % C. butter and lard mixed 2 T. warm milk 2!/2 C. bread Hour 1 T. ginger Heat molasses to boiling point, add shortening which has been melted, ginger, soda dissolved in warm milk, and the flour. Chill thoroughly. Toss 14 mixture on floured board, roll y8 inch thick, shape and place in buttered pan, bake in moderate oven until browned. DOUGHNUTS. 1 C. sour milk

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