Stirred Cake

Ingredients

• Put in a mixing bowl 3 eggs
• 1 scant cup white sugar
• 3 tablespoons sweet milk
• 3 tablespoons melted butter
• 1 heaping cup sifted flour
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Stir all together for 3 minutes; rather quick oven.

2. 2

   Will do for layer cake, sponge cake or steam pudding.

3. 3

   If used for pudding, steam for 1 hour and do not lift the steamer lid.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal Victoria cook book (1900) by Ont.). Woman's Auxiliary Royal Victoria Hospital (Barrie, page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 tablespoon melted butter, 1 teaspoon baking powder, | teaspoon of lemon juice. Bake to a dark brown. bueys BELL: LADY FINGERS.—Beat the yolks of 4 eggs with + pound of sugar till smooth and light; whisk the whites of the eggs and add to these. Sift in { pound of flour, make into a smooth paste. Cut into size required and bake on buttered paper. MOLASSES CAKE.—Half a cup of New Orleans molasses, $ cup sour cream, 1 egg, $ cup of brown sugar, butter the size of an egg (2 ounces), 1 teaspoon of soda or saleratus, 2 cups flour. Dissolve the soda or saleratus in a tablespoon of boiling water, and add it to the molasses. Beat the egg and sugar together till light, then add the molasses, cream and flour, beat until smooth, and, if you like, add a tablespoon of ginger or a teaspoon of cinnamon. Bake in a shallow pan in a moderate oven for about 30 minutes. Miss CAMPBELL. 148 CAKES. JAM CAKES.—Two cups oatmeal or rolled oats, 2 cups flour, 1 cup light brown sugar, 1 cup shortening of butter and lard mixed, $ cup sour milk with 4 teaspoon soda (or 4 cup water with 2 teaspoons baking powder). Roll out thin, cut with cake cutter, put jam in between layers, press down the edges, and bake in a hot oven. Mrs. H. COOKIES.—One pound flour, $ pound sugar, } pound butter, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda with enough milk to blend the soda. Mix flour, sugar and butter together, then the egos, milk and soda. Roll very thin. Mrs. H. NUT KISSES.— Whites of 6 eggs beaten stiff, 1 pound powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 pound shelled nuts. Drop on well-buttered tins and bake in a moderate oven. Mrs. CRESWICKE. MACAROONS.—-Whites of 2 eggs beaten stiff, 1 small cup granulated sugar added, 14 small cups cocoanut added to these. If the cocoanut is shredded chop it a little. Put this mixture in a double boiler and heat through. Have ready buttered paper on your pans, and.as soon as you take off the mixture from the stove add 14 teaspoons corn starch, + teaspoon bitter almond essence. Stir thoroughly; if too thin to drop nicely, add a little cocoanut; drop about 4 a teaspoonful at a time, or more if you wish. Bake in moderate oven 15 to 20 minutes. Mrs. REDDITT. MOLLY CAKE—Half cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 egos, 1 cup milk, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, raisins, almonds and flavoring. Miss R. E. McWHINNEY. MADEIRA CAKE.—Warm until the consistency of creum 6 ounces butter; beat into it $ pound sugar, then $ pound flour. Have ready 6 eggs well beaten; work all to- gether till it is a smooth batter; add the grated rind of a CAKES. 149 lemon ; mix during the whole time; a pinch of bicarbonate of soda. Put the cake quickly into the oven (while ina froth), which should not be too fierce, and bake 2 hour, a golden yellow. The lightness of this cake depends entirely on the mixing and beating of ingredients. Line cake tin with buttered paper, or butter tin ; it will require buttered paper on top to prevent it becoming brown. 1 teaspoon baking powder put in the last thing or mixed with flour may be used instead of soda. Mrs. Masor. LEMON CAKE.—The juice and rind of 1 lemon, 2 eggs, # cup sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 cup flour, $ cup milk, 2 spoons baking powder. Beat eggs separately. Ex- cellent. Miss ALICE HAINES. DATE CAKES.—One cup butter, $ cup milk, } tea- spoon salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 2 cups flour, 2 cups oatmeal. Filling:—One pound dates, # cup sugar, water enough to boil smooth. Mrs. Matcotm MacLeop. GINGER SNAPS.—One pint molasses, 1 cup butter, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon soda. Put over the fire until it comes to boil. When nearly cold add flour to make a stiff dough. Roll out and cut into small cakes. Mrs. Matcotm MacLeop. ALMOND PASTE—One pound ground almonds, 1 pound fine sifted white sugar, whites of 2 egos, few drops essence almond. Mix sugar and ground almonds well to- gether, then add little by little whites of eggs beaten to a froth until the mixture is a thick paste, add essence of almond. Mixall thoroughly. Mrs. Matcotm MacLeop. STIRRED CAKE.—Put in a mixing bowl 3 eggs, | scant cup white sugar, 3 tablespoons sweet milk, 3 table- spoons melted butter, 1 heaping cup sifted flour mixed with 150 CAKES, 2 teaspoons of baking powder

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