Spice Cake - My Mother's

Ingredients

• One tablespoonful of butter
• one-half cup of sugar
• two whole eggs
• yolks of six more
• one cup of golden syrup, or honey
• one tablespoonful of brandy
• three and one-quarter cups of flour
• two cups of shelled pecans
• two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon
• one teaspoonful of cloves
• one-quarter cake of bitter chocolate grated

Method

1. 1

   Spread as thin as possible in greased bread pans, and bake in a quick oven.

2. 2

   For icing, boil one cup of granulated sugar with enough hot water to dissolve it until it threads from the spoon.

3. 3

   Beat the white of an egg stiff, add the boiling candy slowly, and add a piece of one-half lemon.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete cook book (1900) by Rees, Jennie Day Mrs., page 103. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPICE CAKE— MY MOTHER'S. One tablespoonful of butter, one-half cup of sugar, two whole eggs and yolks of six more. Mix this well, then add one cup of golden syrup, or honey, and one tablespoonful of brandy. After stirring all together well, add three and one-quarter cups of flour, two cups of shelled pecans, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of cloves, and one-quarter cake of bitter chocolate grated

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