Tilden Cake
From Popular cook book, 1899
This is so excellent that a barrel would not be too much of it.
Presented as published in 1899. 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 Popular cook book (1899) by Seeman Printery, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
half cup corn starch, one and one- half cups sweet milk, one-half cup butter, one cup sugar, one large spoonful baking powder, whites of three eggs. DARK SEA in One cup brown sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sour milk, two anda half cups flour, one cup raisins, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in a little warm water, three tablespoonfuls molasses, three each of nutmeg and cinnamon. Bake in layers. Mrs. W. T. CARRINGTON. CHOCOLA RE ar. One cup butter, two cups sugar, two and a half cups flour, one cup sour-creain, five eggs with the additional yolks of shree eggs (the whites of which use for the fill- ing for the cake); one teaspoonful soda put into the sour creain and stir it in till it foams; grate one cake Baker’s chocolate and put half of it into your cake batter just before stirring in the flour; use the other halt for jthe filling with one pound white sugar and the whites of the three eggs beaten light and about a half teacup fresh water. Put the sugar and beaten whites and water into a pan and stir over the fire until it thickens. Bakecake in jelly pans and put layers of the filling and walnut kernels between. Flavor cake batter with vanilla. Mrs. M. RUFFIN HILL, Hillsboro, N. C. [ 87 ] ‘DELICIOUS TEA CAKES. One pound sugar, one-half dozen eggs, six ounces butter, one teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar; beat the eggs, whites and yolks separately, mix with as much flour as will make a dough stiff enough to roll out, roll thin and bake a light brown. “Miss Marky MANGUM. TILDEN CAKE. One cup butter, two of pulverized sugar, one of sweet milk, three of flour, half ci:p corn starch, four eggs, two teaspoons baking powder, two of lemon extract
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