Spice Cake

Ingredients

• the whites of twenty-four eggs
• two pints of white sugar
• one and one-fourth pint of butter
• four pints of flour
• one table-spoonful of cinnamon
• one table-spoonful of allspice
• one grated nutmeg
• one level tea-spoonful of baking-powder in each pint of flour

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour several times; add the spices.

2. 2

   Mix the butter and sugar, and work until very light, then add the flour and whites last.

3. 3

   Take one pint of the batter, stir in the spices, have the mold greased and lined, put into the pint which is spiced three tablespoonfuls of cold water, stir well, and drop this in with the white batter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 144. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPICE CAKE. Take the whites of twenty-four eggs, two pints of white sugar, one and one-fourth pint of butter, four pints of flour with one table-spoonful of flour taken out of each pint, one level tea-spoonful of baking-powder in each pint of flour. Sift the flour several times ; add one table-spoonful of cin- namon, one table-sj)oonful of allspice, one grated nutmeg. Mix the butter and sugar, and work until very light, then add the flour and whites last, Take one pint of the batter, stir in the above spices, have the mold greased and lined, put into the pint which is spiced three table-spoonfuls of cold The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. 283 water, stir well, and drop this in with the white batter, and you have a delicious cake. Mrs. George Hamilton. SPICE CAKE. Take four eggs, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of sweet milk, two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder, three cupfuls of flour, one-half of a grated nutmeg. Divide the batter in half, and bake two cakes; to the other half add one tea- spoouful of allspice, one tea-spoonful of cloves, one tea- spoonful of cinnamon. Bake as the other half in layers. Lay one of each color with jelly between. Miss Jennie McCuleah. ELLIS CAKE. Take one cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, three eggs, one-half cupful of sweet milk, one tea-spoonful of bak- ing-powder, two and one-half cupfuls flour. Flavor with vanilla. To be baked in muffin-rings. SEED CAKE. Take one and one-half pint of flour, one large cupful of sugar, three-fourths of a cupful of butter, one wine-glassful of water, one tea-spoonful of baking-powder, " and a large tea-spoonful of caraway-seed. Mix as you would for cup cake. SPICE CAKE. Take six eggs, one cupful of butter, three cupfuls of flour, one cupful of light brown sugar, one cupful of molasses, one table-spoonful of ginger, one table-spoonful of cinnamon, one table-spoonful of cloves, one table-spoonful of allspice

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.