Twelfth-Night Cake

Ingredients

• one cup butter
• two of sugar
• three and a half of flour
• one of milk
• yolks of five eggs
• whites of three
• three teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• one of orange-extract
• one pea
• one bean
• one clove

Method

1. 1

   Prepare a round pan with a tube in the middle, lined with buttered paper.

2. 2

   Mix baking powder into the flour.

3. 3

   Heat the mixing bowl with hot water, then pour out.

4. 4

   Cream the butter, add flour and extract gradually.

5. 5

   Beat the eggs separately, then mix butter and sugar until light.

6. 6

   Add milk slowly to avoid separation.

7. 7

   Quickly add flour mixture, yolks, and beaten whites.

8. 8

   Pour into the pan and bake in a quick heat oven.

9. 9

   Insert the pea, bean, and clove before frosting.

10. 10

    Decorate as desired.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The universal cookery book (1887) by Gertrude Strohm, page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TWELFTH-NIGHT CAKE. currants, citron, raisins, and almonds. Butter the pans, line them with paper, and put the mixture two inches deep in each. Bake according to the depth of the cakes, three or four hours, in a moderate oven. — Godcy' s Lady' s Book. {By per. Pub.) Twelfth-Night Cake. Take one cup butter, two of sugar, three and a half of flour, one of milk, yolks of five eggs, whites of three, three teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, one of orange-extract, one pea, one bean, one clove

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