Virginia Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1 lb flour
• 1/2 lb butter
• 1 cup water
• 1 lb sugar
• 5 eggs
• 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add egg yolks, then water.

2. 2

   Sift flour and baking powder, beat egg whites.

3. 3

   Add flour and whites to the mixture.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Raleigh recipe book (1925) by Christ Church (Raleigh, N.C.). Ladies, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

VIRGINIA POUND CAKE 1 lb flour 5 eggs 1/2 lb butter 2 teaspoons Royal Baking 1 cup water Powder 1 lb sugar 50 Cream butter, add egg yolks, then water. Sift the flour and baking powder and beat the egg whites. Add first the flour then whites to the first mixture, A good batter for all layer cakes. Mrs. Charles Farmer. LEMON JELLY FILLING 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon butter 1 cup water 1 tablespoon flour mixed into 2 lemons little of the water Mix all together and cook till thick. Spread between layers when cool. Mrs. Charles Farmer. CHOCOLATE CAKE From recipe books of Mrs. Charles Root and Mrs. William Grimes, Sr. 5 eggs 2 heaping teaspoons Royal 2 cups sugar Baking Powder 214 cups flour 4 oz of chocolate grated or 1 heaping cup of butter melted and stirred in last 1 cup of milk Cream butter with sugar. Add well beaten j^olks of eggs, then beaten whites. Sift baking powder Mdth flour twice, then stir in alternating with milk. Add chocolate last. FILLING 4 oz chocolate Butter size of walnut 1 lb brown sugar Teaspoon Virginia Dare Va- i/o cup milk nilla Stir constantly until consistency of cream. Mrs. Watkins Robards, Sanford, N. C. Mrs. John Ward. EVELINEA'S GINGERBREAD 3 eggs 1 cup lard and butter 1 cup brown sugar 3 cups and 2 tablespoons Cru- 1 cup molasses sader flour 1 level tablespoonful allspice 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in boil- 1 level tablespoon cinnamon ing water, added last. 2 level tablespoons ginger Beat for ten minutes and bake for i/^ hour in quick oven. Mrs. Samuel Lawrence. 51 SPONGE CAKE 4 eg'gs Juice of I/2 lemon and grated 1 cup of sugar rind 1 cup of sifted flour A little pinch of salt Separate eggs. Beat yolks till like cream. To this add one-half the sugar and the lemon. Beat this five minvites. Beat whites till stiff, having added salt. Add to beaten whites the other half cup of sugar, then beat yolks and whites together, then fold in the flour. Bake in moderate oven. FOR JELLY ROLL Bake in thin pan for jelly roll, spread on jelly and roll tight. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Miss Mattie H. Bailey. LADY BALTIMORE CAKE (Original Charleston Recipe) One cup butter beaten to a cream with 2 cups sugar, add Syo cups of flour into which 4 level teaspoons of Royal Baking Powd

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