Superior Loaf Cake

Ingredients

• Two CUPS of butter
• three cups of sugar
• two small cups of milk
• seven cups of sifted flour
• four eggs
• one teacupful of seeded raisins
• one teacupful of well-washed and dried currants
• one teacupful of sliced citron
• one tablespoonful of powdered cinnamon
• one teaspoonful of mace
• one teaspoonful of soda
• one teacupful of home-made yeast

Method

1. 1

   Warm part of the butter with milk, stir in part of the flour and yeast, let rise.

2. 2

   Add remaining ingredients, turn into well-buttered cake-tins, let rise again, and bake slowly in a moderate oven for two hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 189. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SUPERIOR LOAF CAKE. Two CUPS of butter, three cups of sugar, two small cups of milk, seven cups of sifted flour; four eggs, the whites and yolks separately beaten; one teacupful of seeded raisins, one teacupful of well-washed and dried cur- rants, one teacupful of sliced citron, one tablespoonful of powdered cinna- mon, one teaspoonful of mace, one teaspoonful of soda and one teacupful of home-made yeast

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