Tilden Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup of butter
• 2 cups of sugar
• 1 cup of sweet milk
• 4 eggs
• 3 cups of flour
• 1-2 cup of cornstarch
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder
• Flavor to suit taste.

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Granite City cook book (1900) by Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church (Mount Airy, N.C.), page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

teaspoonsful baking powder. Cream sugar and butter together, add milk together with little of the flour, and add egg and flour alternate- ly after the eggs have been v ell beat- en. Bake in layer and use any flavor- ing desired DELICIOUS SPONGE CAKE, 3 eggs. 1-2 teaspoonful salt. 1 1-2. cups flour. 1 1-2 cups sugar. 1 1-2 teaspoons baking powder. 1 teaspoon vanilla or lemon. Beat whites stiff, yolks slightly, then beat together and add sugar. Then mix flour with baking powder, and add with also 1-2 cup hot water and lastly salt and extract desired. MRS.' JOHN ASHBY. BLACKBERRY CAKE. 1-2 cup of butter. 1 cap sugar. 3 tablespoonfuls of sour cream 3 eggs beaten separately. 2 curs of flovr. / 1 teaspoonful of soda. 2 teaspoonfuls of cinnamon. 1 teaspoonful of cloves, 1-2 teaspoonful of spice. 1 nutmeg. ! cup of blackberry jam. Pul together with icing. MRS. A. E. SMITH, FRUIT DROP COOKIES. 1-3 cup of snowdrift 1-2 cup sugar. 1 a Cr or 1 "&=>• 2 teaspoonfuls spice, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 cup of flour. 1-2 teaspoon salt. 1-2 cup chopped walnuts, 1-4 cup each currants arid raisins. Drop by teaspoonfuls on oiled tin. Bake in quick oven. MRS. E. P. BAILEY. Wilmington, N. C. PALMETTO CAKE. 1 1-4 lbs sugar, 1 ?b butter, 1 lb flour, 1 lb ctron cut very thin. 2 grated cocoanuts, 1 dozen eggs, Beat eggs separate Mix yellows of eggs well with sugar, add the butter well creamed, then add flour, then vhit^s and fruits, and 1-2 glass wine and brandy, a tablespoon spices. Bake 2 1-2 hours. This makes a lara:e caKe. MRS P ADDISON. 17 WATER-MELON CAKE. '•White Part." 2 cups of white sugar. I cup of sweet milk. 1 cup of butter. 3 1-2 cups flour. 8 eggs (whites only.) 2 teaspoons of Royal Baking Powder. "Red Part." 1 cup of red sugar. 1-2 cup of butter. 1-3 cup of sweet milk. 2 cups of flour. 4 eggs (whites only.) 1 teaspoon of Royal Baking Powder. 1 tea cup of raisins. Be careful to keep the red part around the tube of the pan. MRS .C. E. GALLAWAY. DEVIL'S CAKE. 3-4 cup grated chocolate. 1-2 cup of sweet milk. 1-2 cup brown sugar. Boil in double boiler and let cool. 1-2 cup of butter 1 cup brown sugar. 1-2 cup of sweet milk. 2 well beaten eggs. 1 scant teaspoon soda dissolved in warm water. 2 cops of flour. 1 teaspoonful vanilla. Add first part when cool and bake in Three layers. ICING. 3 caps sugar 3-4 cup of water. Boil until it will thread then add beaten whites of two eggs and nuts if desired Flavor with vaniixa and beat until stiff. MRS. E. H. KOCHTITZKY. 18 STRAWBERRY SHORT-TAKE. 2 cups sugar. 1-2 cup butter. 1 cup sweet milk. 4 eggs leaving out the whites of two. 3 1-2 cups of flour. 1 teaspoons cream of tartar. 1 spoon of soda. Bake in two layers, butter while warm and put together with one quart of strawberries, sweetened. Beat the whites of two eggs and half a cup of sugar and put on top. Put in stove until a light brown. MRS. EDWARD ASHBY. IMPERIAL CAKE. 1 lb of butter. 1 lb of sugar, 1 lb of flour, 9 eggs, 1 1-4 ib of almonds. 1 lb of raisins. 1-2 lb of citron. Cream butter sugar and yolks of ^ggs. Then add the beaten vhites. then the flour, reserving a part for the fruit. Lastly add the nuts blanched, snfc fine and mixed with fruit and flour. MISS ALICE HAI'G-H, Fayetteville, N. C. DOUGHNUTS. 1 cup of sugar. 1 tablespoonful of butter. 1 cup of sour milk. 2 eggs. 1 teaspoonful of soda. pinch of salt and nutmeg to taste. Flour to make a soft dough. Roll thin, cut in rings and cook in deep fat. MRS. W. E. MERRITT. 19 DATE CAKE. 2 lb dates. 1 lb raisins. 1 lb citron. 1 It) currants. 1 cup butter. 1-2 cup molasses. 1-2 teaspoon soda dissolved in molasses. 1-2 cup of strong coffee. 2 eggs. 2 cups brown sugar. 1 1-4 lb flour. Spice to taste, Chop fruit fine and mix as you do fruit cake. MiRjS. ROBINSON, Wilmington, N. C. POUND CAKE. 1 lb sugar, 1 lb butter. 14 oz. flour. 10 eggs, 1 lemon grated rind, and 1-2 the juice if large. Soda the size of a pea, dissolved in one teaspoon of cold water Beat eggs separately and very thoroughly adding whites last, fold- ing them carefully in. MRS. ROBT. H INK'S. TILDEN CAKE. 1 cup of butter. 2 cups of sugar. 1 cup of sweet milk. 4 eggs. 3 cups of flour 1-2 cup of cornstarch 1 teasDoonf.il baking powder Flavor to suit taste.

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