Van Buren Cake
From Household hints, 1881
This cake will keep well.
Presented as published in 1881. 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 Household hints (1881) by Emma Whitcomb Babcock, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Van Bur en Cake, — One cup of sugar, half a cup of but- ter, three eggs, half a cup of chopped raisins, two tea-spoon- fuls of baking powder, about two cups of flour ; flavor with nutmeg. . Put the butter, sugar, milk, and well-beaten eggs together, then stir the flour and raisins in. By putting them in together I have never had any trouble about the raisins falling to the bottom of the cake, but they have been evenly distributed through it. A cake with raisins needs a little more flour than one without them. This cake will keep well. Walnut Cake, — One coffee-cup of sugar, one cup and a half of flour, two cups of raisins, one cup of walnut meats, half a cup of butter, half a cup of sweet milk,, three eggs, half a nutmeg, half a tea-spoonful of soda or two tea-spoon- fuls of baking powder ; flavor with lemon or vanilla. 54 HOUSEHOLD HINTS, Dolly Varden Cake. — Three eggs, two cups of sugar, two thirds of a cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, three cups of flour, one tea-spoonful of cream of tartar, and half a tea-spoonful of soda or two tea-spoonfuls of baking powder
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