Taylor Cake

Ingredients

• Half a cupful of butter
• two and a half of sugar
• one of milk
• three and a half of pastry flour
• three eggs
• one teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• half a teaspoonful of soda
• flavor to taste

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream, then beat in the sugar, next the eggs well beaten; the seasoning, the milk, and lastly the flour, in which the soda and cream of tartar have been thoroughly mixed.

2. 2

   Bake in a moderate oven, either in loaves or sheets.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 160. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Taylor Cake. Half a cupful of butter, two and a half of sugar, one of milk, three and a half of pastry flour, three eggs, one tea- spoonful of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda, flavor to taste. Beat the butter to a cream, then beat in the sugar, next the eggs, well beaten ; the seasoning, the milk, and lastly the flour, in which the soda and cream of tartar have been thoroughly mixed. Bake in a moderate oven, either in loaves or sheets. If in sheets, twenty-five minutes ; if in loaves, forty-five. The quantities given are for two loaves or sheets. This cake is nice .for Washington or chocolate pies, and is good baked in sheets and frosted. Loaf Cake. Two quarts of sugar, seven cupfuls of butter, six quarts ot sifted flour, six pounds of fruit, one pint of wine, one pint of yeast, eight nutmegs, mace, twelve eggs, one quart of milk. It should be made at such an hour (being governed by the weather) as will give it time to get perfectly light by even- ing. It should stand about six hours in summer and eight in winter. Put in half the butter and eggs, and the milk, flavor and yeast, and beat thoroughly. In the evening add the remain- der of the butter, rubbing it with the sugar, the rest of the eggs, and the spice. , Let the cake rise again, until morning ; then add the fruit. Put in deep pans, and let rise about half an hour. Bake from two to three hours in a slow oven. Chocolate Cake. One and a half cupfuls of sugar, half a cupful of butter, half a cupful of milk, one and three-fourths cupfuls of flour, a quarter of a pound of Baker's chocolate, three eggs, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar

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