Straw Cake

Name: Straw Cake
Ingredients: 1 pound of A sugar; 0.5 pound butter; 1 cup of milk; 5 eggs; 0.5 pound of flour; 2 teaspoons of baking powder; 1 teaspoon of vanilla

From Historic Paxton, her days and her ways, 1722-1913, 1913

Presented as published in 1913. 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 Historic Paxton, her days and her ways, 1722-1913 (1913) by Helen Bruce Wallace, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

straw Cake 1 pound of A sugar. % pound butter, down weight. 1 cup of milk. 5 eggs, leave out the whites of two for icing. % pound of flour. 2 teaspoons of baking powder. 1 teaspoon of vanilla

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