Spice Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 4 eggs
• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoonful soda
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 tablespoonfuls cinnamon
• 1 teaspoonful cloves
• 1 nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, then mix in flour and buttermilk.

2. 2

   Beat well and boil sugar for icing until it ropes from fork, then beat in egg whites.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housewife's aid (1950) by N.C.). Young Woman's Aid Society Queen Street Methodist Church (Kinston, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPICE CAKE Cream one cup shortening, add one cup each of sugar, mo- lasses, and thick sour milk, four cups flour, sifted three times with two teaspoons soda, and one teaspoon each cinnamn and nutmeg. Add two teaspoons vinegar. Bake in square pan in moderate oven thirty-five minutes. Ice with caramel or white frosting.—Mrs. Jas. C. Poe. SPICE CAKE 2 cups brown sugar, 1 cup butter, cream together; add 4 eggs, leaving out the whites of two for icing, add 3 cups flour, 1 tea- spoonful soda, flour without powder. Then add 1 cup butter- milk, 2 tablespoonfuls cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful cloves, 1 nutmeg. Beat well. Add two cups sugar for icing, boil until ropes from fork, then beat in whites.—Mrs. J. M. Quinn. THA CAKES 2 eggs, 2 cups of sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon extract, 1 cup of lard, 1 cup sweet milk or water, flour sufficient to make a stiff Gough. Roll thin and cut. Bake in hot oven.—Mrs. J. H. Alex- ander. SPICH DROP CAKE 2 cups brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar, % Ib butter, 6 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls each cinnamon, cloves and allspice, 7 cups flour, 1 cup milk, 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, 1 teaspoonful soda

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