Thanksgiving Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups of powdered white sugar
• three-fourths cup butter
• well-beaten yolks of six eggs
• one cup. sweet milk
• 3% cups flour
• one level teaspoon soda
• two teaspoons cream of tartar
• white of four eggs beaten added last

Method

1. 1

   Bake in four layers.

2. 2

   For icing, boil two cups granulated sugar with four tablespoons of hot water until it threads, then beat until thick.

3. 3

   Divide in two parts, adding chopped figs to one and cocoanut to the other, alternating layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The National home cook book (1900), page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

THANKSGIVING CAKE—Two cups of powdered white sugar, three-fourths cup butter, well-beaten yolks of six eggs, one cup. sweet milk, 3% cups flour one level teaspoon soda, two teaspoons cream of tartar, white of four eggs beaten added last

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