Spice Cake without Eggs

Ingredients

• I small cup sugar— 6 ounces.
• 1/2 cup butter - 4 ounces.
• 2 heaped teaspoons baking powder.
• 5 cups flour — 1 1/2 pounds.
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon.
• 1 teaspoon each of cloves and allspice.

Method

1. 1

   Warm the butter; stir up the sugar and milk.

2. 2

   Put the powder and spices in the flour, mix all and beat up well.

3. 3

   Bake in shallow tins and frost over when done.

4. 4

   Before baking, brush over the top of each cake with milk; it glazes them and makes a smooth crust.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 196. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 heaped teaspoons baking powder. 5 cups flour — ij^ pounds. 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon. I teaspoon each of cloves and allspice. Warm the butter ; stir up the sugar and milk. Put the powder and spices in the flour, mix all and beat up well. Bake in shallow tins and frost over when done. Before baking brush over the top of each cake with milk; it glazes them, and makes smooth crust. 641- A Pasiry and Store Room Neces- sary. Boil blood beets in plenty of water from It took about two weeks at this house one to two hours. Try with a fork. Put to get a little room fixed up with a few them into cold water and rub off the skm. shelves to keep certain kinds of stores upon Cut in quarters or suitable pieces into a I and a table m the same room for the saucepan, and fill up with three parts I bread-making pastry, although I had water and one part vinegar. Boil, add made temporary arrangements of the kind salt, a little butter, and flour thickening, on the very first day, being allowed to gently pitch a lounge and rocking chair 639- Boiled Corn Starch without Eggs. Pudding good 4 cups milk — a quart. 2 heaping tablespoons sugar. 4 do corn starch — 4 ounces weight. I ounce butter— small egg size. I yolk to color it if you like. Boil the milk with the sugar in it. Mix the starch with a little cold milk, thin It with some hot out of the kettle,pour it quickly into the boiling milk and stir while it is thickening, which it does im- mediate] Y; Throw in the butter and beat up, then add the yolk of egg thinned with milk, and take it from the fire. An extremely easy and simple pudding and excellent. Must not be kept too hot after cooking as that causes it to turn thin. Serve with sauce. 640— Spice Cake without Eggs. A great favorite : Looks like chocolate cake. Would not be any better if made with eggs. I small cup sugar— 6 ounces.

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