Spice Cakes

Ingredients

• cream one-half cup of butter
• with one cup of sugar
• add one beaten egg
• one-half cup of sour milk
• one-half level teaspoon of soda
• one-half level teaspoon of baking powder
• one-half level teaspoon of cinnamon
• a few gratings of nutmeg
• two and one-half cups of pastry flour
• one-half cup of chopped walnut meats
• one-half cup of seeded and chopped raisins

Method

1. 1

   Roll out thin and cut into shapes or drop spoonfuls on a buttered pan and press out thin.

2. 2

   Bake until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus (1911) by Rufus Estes, page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cup each of seeded and chopped raisins and of chopped hickory nuts mixed with the reserved half cup of flour. Bake in a moderate oven, cover with a white icing and garnish without meats. HUCKLEBERRY CAKES— Mix together one quart of flour, one teaspoon salt, four teaspoons baking powder and one-half cup of sugar. Mix one-third cup butter, melted with one cup of milk. Add it to the flour and then add enough more milk to make a dough stiff enough to keep in shape when dropped from a spoon. Flour one pint of berries, stir in quickly, and drop by the large spoonful on a buttered pan or in muffin rings. Bake twenty minutes. ICE CREAM CAKE — Cream three-quarters cup of butter with two cups of fine granulated sugar. Add one cup of milk with two cups of flour and three-quarters cup of cornstarch sifted twice with five level teaspoons of baking powder. Fold in slowly the whites of seven eggs and bake in layers. LAYER CAKE — One and one-half cups of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of butter, the whites of six eggs, one cup of sweet milk, two and one-half cups of pastry flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, flavor with lemon, put two-thirds of the mixture into jelly tins. To the rest add two tablespoonfuls of molasses, one- half cup of raisins (seeded), three figs (chopped), one tea- spoonful cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful allspice, two tablespoon- fuls of flour. Bake, when cool, together with jelly, having the dark layer in the center. MARGARETTES — One-half pound of peanuts, one pound of dates chopped fine. One cup of milk in the dates, and boil, add peanuts. Make a boiled icing. Take the long branch crack- ers, spread the filling between the crackers, put on the icing, and put in the oven to brown. PLAIN CAKE— Beat together one-half cup of butter and two cups of sugar until light and creamy, add the well beaten yolks of three eggs, one-half cup of milk, three cups of flour in which three teaspoons of baking powder have been sifted, and last the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs. Add any flavor- ing preferred and bake in a moderate oven. PLAIN TEA CAKE— Cream two level tablespoons of butter and one cup of sugar together, add one beaten egg, one cup of 98 CAKES, CRULLERS, ECLAIRS milk and two cups of flour in which three level teaspoons of baking powder have been sifted. Bake in a sheet, and serve while fresh. RAISIN CAKE — One cup butter, three eggs, one and one- half cups sugar, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, one cup raisins, little nutmeg, three cups flour. One can use two eggs and one-half cup butter; then bake as usual. ROCKLAND CAKE— Two cups sugar, one cup butter beaten to a cream, five eggs, one cup milk, four cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one teaspoonful essence of lemon. SNIPPODOODLES— One cup of sugar, one tablespoon of butter, one-half cup of milk, one egg, one cup of flour, one tea- spoon of cinnamon. Cream the butter, add the sugar, then the eggs well beaten, then the flour, baking powder and cinnamon, sifted together, and the milk. Spread very thin on the tin sheet and bake. When nearly done sprinkle with sugar; when brown remove from the oven, cut into squares and remove quickly with a knife. They should be thin and crispy. SNOW CAKE— Beat the white of four eggs stiff. Cream one-half cup of milk and one cup of butter and one cup of sugar, add one-half cup of milk and two cups of flour sifted twice with three level teaspoons of baking powder. Fold in the whites of the eggs last and half a teaspoon or more of lemon or vanilla flavoring. SPICE CAKES — For little spice cakes cream one-half cup of butter with one cup of sugar, add one beaten egg, one-half cup of sour milk, and one-half level teaspoon each of soda, baking powder, and cinnamon, and a few gratings of nutmeg sifted with two and one-half cups of pastry flour. Stir in one- half cup each of chopped walnut meat

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