Spice Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• ]^ cup butter
• 3/2 cup thick sour cream
• ]/^ teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 eggs, beaten well
• 3^ teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 scant cups flour
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 level teaspoon soda
• }/^ teaspoon cloves

Method

1. 1

   Bake in gem pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delta Gamma cook book (1922), page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

^ cup butter or lard Yi cup molasses }/2 cup sugar and 1 egg 2 cups flour 3^ cup sour milk or buttermilk 1 teaspoon soda, good measure Bake in shallow tin and cut in squares. Sprinkle with sugar before baking. Gertrude Willard Phisterer (Chi Upsilon). Mary Anns 2 eggs, beaten ^ cup flour 1 cup brown sugar small cup walnuts yi teaspoon baking powder Spread very thin and bake in gem pans. Half a walnut on top of each improves cakes. Margaret Denfeld Hudson (Lambda). Mocha Tart V/i cups sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 3/2 cup butter 3^ cup milk 4 eggs 6 teaspoons coffee extract 2 cups flour Mix in order given and bake in shallow tins. Filling Add at time of serving. Y2 pint of cream (whipped stiff)" 3^ cup sugar 2 tablespoons of coffee extract Nut Brown Tea Cakes ^ cup butter . , \ cream together 1 cup brown sugar J ° 1 egg vanilla 3^ cup sweet milk 2 scant cups flour, sifted Y teaspoon soda, dissolved in milk Y2 cup chopped walnuts Mix in order given, beat well and bake either in small tins or dropped from a teaspoon on greased cookie sheet. These are very good plain, but may be frosted as desired. They may be varied by adding four tablespoons melted chocolate to batter. Very good and rehable as well as inexpensive. Grace Ware Chambers (Lambda) . 158 DELTA GAMMA COOK BOOK Sour Cream Drop Cakes }/2 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon cloves 3/^ cup white sugar J^ teaspoon ginger }/2 teaspoon cinnamon Mix well, add one egg beaten up in one cup of sour cream to which one level teaspoon soda has been added. Add one-fourth cup chopped nuts and one-half cup scalded raisins, one cup sifted flour. Bake in greased muffin tins. Dorothy Watkins (Kappa). Sour Cream Drop Cakes 1 cup sugar 13^ cups white flour 2 well beaten eggs 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup sour cream 1 teaspoon vanilla 3^2 teaspoon soda Bake in medium oven in gem pans about twenty minutes. Katherine Esterly (Beta Sigma). Spice Cakes 1 cup sugar ]/2 cup butter 3/2 cup thick sour cream ]/^ teaspoon cinnamon 2 eggs, beaten well 3^ teaspoon nutmeg 2 scant cups flour 1 cup raisins 1 level teaspoon soda • 1 cup English walnuts }/^ teaspoon cloves

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