Tumbler Cake

Ingredients

• Four eggs
• one tumbler sugar
• one tumbler butter
• one-half tumbler molasses
• one-third tumbler milk
• one teaspoon saleratus
• spices to taste
• one-half pound raisins
• one-fourth pound currants
• flour to make it the usual consistency

Method

1. 1

   Bake one and one-fourth hours in a slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 136. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one teaspoon saleratus. One loaf. PLAIN CAKE. Harriet N. Jenks. One cup of Indian meal sifted, one of flour, one of sugar, one teaspoon soda, about a pint of sour milk, tea- spoon of salt, one egg, piece of butter size of a common egg. Wholesome for children. ONE EGG CAKE. Mrs. P. B. Ayer. One and a half cups sugar and one-half of butter beaten together, one egg, one cup milk, two and a half of flour, two and a half teaspoons of baking powder. This cake should have icing of some kind between, chocolate for example. 346 THE HOME COOK BOOK. TIPSY CAKE. Mrs. Gen. N. J T. Dana. Take sponge cake and stick it full of almonds which have been blanched ; turn over it as much white wine as it will absorb ; put it in a deep dish or glass bowl, and let it stand one hour, then pour over it as much soft custard as the dish will hold. Let it stand two or three hours. Very simple and very nice. RUNAWAY CAKE. Mattie Winslow, Aurora, 111. One egg, one teaspoon sugar, two tablespoons butter, one cup milk, two teaspoons cream tartar, one teaspoon soda, flour to make a little thicker than griddle cakes. This is very nice eaten hot with butter for breakfast and tea. TUMBLER CAKE. Mrs. Lamkin. I'^our eggs, one tumbler sugar, one tumbler butter, one- half tumbler molasses, one- third tumbler milk, one tea- spoon saleratus ; spices to taste ; one-half pound raisins, one-fourth pound currants, flour to make it the usual con- sistency. Bake one and one-fourth hours in a slow oven. ADAMS' CAKE. Mrs. H. P. Stowell. One cup sugar, two-thirds cup butter, four eggs

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