Spice Cake (Gateau d’Epices)

Ingredients

• Three-quarters cup butter
• one cup brown sugar
• three-quarters cup milk
• one and a half cups flour
• two teaspoons Royal baking powder
• all different kinds of spices according to taste such as cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, etc.
• juice of half lemon
• two tablespoons brandy
• two eggs

Method

1. 1

   Stir butter and sugar to a cream; add the yolks, milk, flour, and baking powder (sifted), lemon juice, brandy, and spices; last add the whites of the eggs — well beaten.

2. 2

   Bake in a well-buttered and papered cake tin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Swedish, French, American cook book (1918) by Hammond, Maria Mathilda (Ericsson) Mrs., page 576. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one and a half cups flour, two teaspoons Royal baking powder, two table¬ spoons potato flour; season according to taste with brandy or vanilla. How to Make It. Rub the sugar and butter to a light white cream. Add one egg at a time (beating seven minutes after each addition), the brandy, and the flour (that has been sifted with the baking powder). Mix well, bake in a well-buttered and papered pan from fifty to sixty minutes. * Spice Cake ( Gateau d’Epices) a la Breta Three-quarters cup butter, one cup brown sugar, three-quarters cup milk, one and a half cups flour, two teaspoons Royal baking powder; all different kinds of spices according to taste such as cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, etc.; juice of half lemon, two tablespoons brandy, two eggs. How to Make It. Stir butter and sugar to a cream; add the yolks, milk, flour, and baking powder (sifted), lemon juice, brandy, and spices; last add the whites of the eggs — well beaten. Bake in a well-buttered and papered cake tin. This cake can also be made in small individual tins and baked from ten to twelve minutes. Frost with a spice frosting or any kind of a white frosting. Golden Spice Cake ( Gateau d’Epices en or) a la Anna Maria Half cup butter, yolks of four eggs, one cup brown sugar, half cup molasses, half cup milk, two teaspoons Royal baking powder, two and a half cups flour, one teaspoon ground cloves; one teaspoon each of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg; and one and a half cups of mixed currants, raisins, almonds, citron peel. How to Make It. Stir butter to a cream, add molasses and the milk, sift flour and baking powder, add all the spices and fruit; last add the yolks of the eggs and brown sugar — stirred to a souffle. Bake in well-buttered and papered cake tins about forty-five minutes in a slow oven. Frost with a boiled spice frosting, deco¬ rate according to taste. 396 THE SWEDISH, FRENCH, AMERICAN COOK BOOK Ginger Sponge Cake a la Theresa Gateau de Savoie au Gingembre, a la Therese Two cups brown sugar, four eggs, two tablespoons cornstarch, two cups flour, juice of half lemon, two teaspoons ginger, two teaspoons Royal baking powder, four tablespoons brandy, half cup water. How to Make It. Stir yolks of eggs and sugar to a souffle; add brandy, ginger, and lemon juice. Sift flour and Royal baking powder, add the water to the yolks, then the sifted flour and cornstarch, last the whites of eggs — well beaten. Bake in a well- buttered and papered pan about forty minutes. Frost with a boiled spice frosting. Ginger Cake a la Ericsson Hammond Gateau au Gingembre, a la Ericsson Hammond Two tablespoons butter, three tablespoons sugar, two heaping teaspoons ginger, one egg, four cups sifted flour, three heaping teaspoons Royal baking powder, one cup syrup, two cups milk. How to Make It. Put the butter in a bowl, add the sugar, mix well; add the ginger, egg, flour, baking powder, syrup, and milk; mix together until smooth. Put in a well-buttered iron pan and bake in a slow oven from thirty to thirty-five minutes. Frost with a boiled frosting. Rich Butter Cake ( Gateau savoreux au Beurre ) a la Vera One cup butter, two cups sugar, four eggs, one cup milk, two tablespoons brandy

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