Tilden Cake

Ingredients

• 34 cup Crisco
• 1%4 cups sugar
• 4 well beaten eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 3 cups flour
• 34 teaspoon salt
• % cup cornstarch
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons lemon extract

Method

1. 1

   Cream Crisco with sugar, add beaten eggs, milk, sift in flour, salt, cornstarch, baking powder, and lemon extract.

2. 2

   Turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake for 1.5 hours in moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 123. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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