Spice Layer Cake
From The Landmarks club cook book, 1903
Serves 4
This recipe is attributed to Mrs. Alfred J. Bayer.
Presented as published in 1903. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The Landmarks club cook book (1903) by The Landmarks club, Los Angeles, Calif., page 107. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
SPICE LAYER CAKE. One cup butter, one and a half cups sugar, one cup sour milk (thick), three small cups flour, one cup of chopped rai- sins or currants, one teaspoonful soda, two of cloves, two of cinnamon, two of allspice, and two of chocolate if desired. Fla- vor with vanilla. Mrs. Alfred J. Bayer. WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE. Three cups sugar, one cup butter, half cup sweet milk, whites of ten eggs, half teaspoon ful soda and half teaspoonful cream of tartar sifted with flour, four cups of flour. Flavor with es- sence of bitter almonds. Icing: Whites of three eggs, one pound powdered sugar. Flavor with lemon juice. Bake in jelly cake tins and fill with grated cocoanut, sweet- ened with quarter its weight of powdered sugar. F. H. Smith. ICINGS. ICING. White of an egg beaten very stiff ; stir in very gradually ten heaping teaspoons of powdered sugar and one teaspoon starch, both sifted very fine. Stir constantly for about fifteen min- utes. If desired, flavor with rose-water or vanilla. While the cake is warm, dredge it with flour; then wipe it all off. This allows the icing to be more evenly spread. Spread smoothly with a broad knife, and set it in a cool place to harden. 182 LANDMARKS CLUB COOK BOOK. BOILED ICING. Take one cup of sugar and a little water boiled together until it is brittle when dropped into cold water. Remove from the stove and stir quickly into it the well beaten white of one egg. Place betweeen layers or over the top. BOILED ICING. One and a half cups of sugar, one-half cup of milk, butter the size of an egg. Boil all together fifteen minutes. Flavor with vanilla
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