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Tea Cake
From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886
Serves 8
Presented as published in 1886. 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 The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 357. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
TEA CAKE. Break an egg in a teacup, fill with sugar, beat thoroughly together, add one cup thick, sour cream, one teaspoonful soda, a little salt, half a nutmeg and flour to make a stiff batter ; bake twenty minutes in a mod- erate oven. SNOW FLAKE CAKE. Two cups pulverized sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, one cup corn starch, two cups flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls baking pow- der, extract of lemon. ANGELS' FOOD. One-half tumbler of granulated sugar, one tumbler of sifted flour, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of vanilla ; sift the flour four times, then add the cream of tartar and sift again, but have the right measure before adding the cream of tartar ; sift sugar and meas- ure ; beat the whites of eleven eggs to a stiff froth, then add the sugar lightly, a little at a time, then the flour the same way, then the vanilla ; 27 418 CAKE. do not stop beating until you put in the pan to bake. Bake forty min- utes in a moderate oven, not opening the doors for the first fifteen minutes ; try, and if not done, let stand a few moments longer. The tumbler must hold two and one-quarter gills. Icing — Whites of two eggs, two teacups of sugar ; boil the sugar with just enough water to moisten it ; pour boiling hot, very slowly over the beaten eggs ; dissolve a small half teaspoonf ul of citric acid in a tablespoonful of water and put in enough of it to make a pleasant flavor. BUTTERNUT CAKE. One and one-half cups sugar, one-half of butter, two of flour, three- fourths of sweet milk, one cup of meats of nuts, whites of four eggs, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. TEA CAKE. Two-thirds cup sugar, butter size of walnut, the yolk of one egg, one- half teacup sweet milk, one-half teaspoonful baking powder, one cup sifted flour
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