Spice Layer Cake

Ingredients

• Tavo cups brown sugar
• two thirds cup of butter
• one cup buttermilk
• four eggs
• one teaspoonful soda
• three cups flour
• one tablespoonful cinnamon
• one teaspoonful ground cloves
• one teaspoonful ground nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar.

2. 2

   Beat eggs separately, add yolks to mixture.

3. 3

   Mix other ingredients and dissolve soda in milk.

4. 4

   Bake in cake tins.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

tAvo cups brown sugar. Add four eggs, two cups flour and one teaspoonful soda, one -half cup sweet milk, one-fourth large cake Baker's Chocolate. FILLING. Cream three tablespoonfuls butter, one pound confectioner's sugar, three teaspoonfuls coffee (liquid). sLx teaspoonfuls vanilla, six teaspoon- fuls cocoa. Do not cook this. — Mrs. J. D. Hamlin. LEMON CAKE. Two cups flour, two cwps sugar, six eggs, six tablespoon- fuls butter, four tablespoonfuls milk, two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, one teaspoonful soda (or two of baking powder), two-thirds teaspoonful salt. FILLING. One and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup butter, four eggs, rind of three lemons grated, and juice. Beat the butter, sugar and eggs together. Set into a dish of boiling water; then add the lemon and stir until thick. Spread betAveen layers of cake. — Mrs. Lonnie Hamlin. , PINEAPPLE CAKE. One cup sugar, one cup butter, yolks of three eggs, tAvo cups flour, tAvo teaspoonfuls Royal Baking PoAvder, tAVO tablespoonfuls pine- apple juice. Cream the butter and sugar, add the well-beaten yolks and the sifted flour Avith baking poAvder. Add flavoring and bake in three layers. FILLING. Boil two cups sugar Avith tAVO-thirds cup cream for ten minutes. Take from the fire and beat until thick and smooth. To one-third of this add one cup grated pineapple to spread betAveen the layers. To the remaining tAvo- thirds, add enough pineapple juice to make it spread smoothly for icing. — Mrs. Lonnie Hamlin. POUND CAKE. One pound flour, one pound sugar, one pound butter, one pound eggs, one cup SAveet milk, one tablespoonful cream of tartar, one teaspoon- ful soda. Cream sugar and butter, beat AA'hites and yelloAvs of eggs separately, add eggs and flour alternately. Dissolve cream of tartar and soda in milk and stir until it foams. When all is mixed thoroughly, beat hard for fifteen minutes. Bake in a moderate oven tAVo and one-half hours. — Mrs. Ben Perry. SPICE LAYER CAKE. Tavo cups broAvn sugar, tAvo thirds cup of butter, one cup buttermilk, four eggs, one teaspoonful soda, three cups flour, one table- spoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful ground cloves, one teaspoonful ground nut- m

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