Tea Cake

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter (scant)
• 1 cup milk
• 4 cups flour
• a bit of soda not larger than a bean

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Machias Cook Book (1899) by [name missing], page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

cup milk, i teaspoonful cream tartar, y^ teaspoon- ful soda, 2 cups flour (scant) ; lemon and salt. Mrs. G. H. Foster. MRS. B.*S CAKE. 2 cups powdered sugar^ 1 cup butter, 4 eggs, i cup sweet milk, 3 cups pastry flour, J^ cup corn starch, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 2 teaspoonfuls lemon or vanilla. Mrs. W. H. Bowker, Brookline, Mass. CAKE. 21 A CHEAP WHITE CAKE. Cream yi cup of butter with i cup sugar, add whites of 2 eggs beaten to a stiff froth, J^ cup milk, i ^ cups flour, i teaspoonful cream tartar, J^ teaspoonful soda, and flavor. Mrs. S. F. Beverly. WALNUT CAKE. i^ cups sugar, the whites of 4 eggs well beaten, )4 cup butter, cream this together, then put in 2 J^ cups flour ; then add ^ cup sweet milk with i teaspoonful cream tartar, and y^ teaspoonful soda put in the milk, beat this well and last put in ^ pound walnuts, cut up with a knife. Mrs. Haiti e Gardner. ANNA'S BLUEBERRY CAKE. }^ cup butter, i cup sugar, 2 eggs, i cup milk, i teaspoonful soda, 2 teaspoonfuls cream tartar, ly^ cups flour, i pint blueberries, DRIED APPLE CAKE. 3 cups of dried or evaporated apples, soak over night in cold water, chop very fine and put over the fire with 3 cups of syrup, or molasses, and stew until soft, but not pulpy. When cold mix with them 3j^ cups of flour, i cup butter, 3 eggs, i cup sugar, i tea- spoon soda, 2 teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, salt and spice ; raisins and currants may be added if desired. Addie Gray, Wesley, Me. NICE ONE EGG CAKE. I cup sugar (scant), Yi cup shortening, ^3 cup water, i egg, 2 teaspoonfuls cream tartar, i of soda, flour and flavor. SCRIPTURE CAKE. 1 cup of butter, Judges, v. 25 ; 2 cups of Sligar, J-remiah, \'i, 20; 3^ cups of sifted fljur, i Kings, iv. 22 ; 2 cups of raisins, i Samuel, xxx. 12 ; 2 cups of figs, i Samuel, xxx. 12 ; 1 up »f • 22 MACHIAS CQOK BOOK. mends, Genesis, Ixiii. 1 1 ; i cup of water, Genesis, xxiv. 20 ; 6 eggs, Isaiah, X. 14 ; a little salt, Leviticus, ii. 13; a large iron spoonful of honey, Exodus, xvi. 31 ; sweet spices to taste, 1 Kings, X. 2 ; one teaspoon of cream of tartar. Matt., xiii. 33 ; j4 teaspoon of soda. Matt , xiii. 33. DELICIOUS CAKE. 2 cups of sugar, i cup of butter, i cup of milk, 3 cups of flour, 3 eggs, I teaspoon of cream of tartar, J^ teaspoon of soda, salt. CHEAP ANGEL CAKE. I cup sugar, ^ cup butter, beat to a cream. Dissolve i heap- ing teaspoonful of cream of tartar and ^ teaspoonful soda in ^ cup sweet milk, stir into the butter and sugar ; to i cup of flour add Ys cup corn starch, beat thoroughly, then add the whites of 4 6ggS) well beaten. ALMOND CAKE. 3 eggs (whites), 2 cups flour, i cup sugar, yi cup butter, J^ cup milk, I teaspoonful cream tartar, ^ teaspoonful soda. Almond. TEA CAKE. 4 eggs, 3 cups sugar, i cup butter (scant), i cup milk, 4 cups flour, a bit of soda not larger than a bean

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