Spice Cake

Name: Spice Cake
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1^/2 cups sugar; 1 cup butter; 1 cup sour milk; 3 cups flour; 5 eggs; 1 teaspoon soda; 2 teaspoons ground cloves; 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon allspice

From The Henderson cook book, 1914

Serves 4

Boiled Icing: To 4 cups sugar put 1 cup boiling water and boil until it becomes almost candy when dropped in water. Pour over the well-beaten whites, beating all the time.

Presented as published in 1914. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The Henderson cook book (1914) by First Baptist Church (Henderson, N.C.). Ladies' Aid Society, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPICE CAKE. 1^/2 cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sour milk, 3 cups flour, 5 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons ground cloves, 3 tea- poons ground cinnamon, 1 teaspoon allspice

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