Walnut Cake

Ingredients

• Half cup butter
• one cup sugar
• yolks of three eggs
• whites of two
• half cup milk
• one and a half cups flour
• one and one-half teaspoons baking powder
• three-fourths cup walnut meat

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and milk.

2. 2

   Sift flour and baking powder, add to mixture.

3. 3

   Bake in a sheet for forty-five minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 87. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one and one-half teaspoons baking powder; one- half teaspoon cinnamon; cream the but- ter, add gradually the sugar, then the egg yolks beaten until light colored; "sift together thoroughly the flour, baking powder and cin- namon, and add alternately with the milk to the first mixture. Bake in layers; spread with CARAMEL, FROSTING: One and one-half cups brown sugar, three-fourths cup thin cream, one teaspoon butter. Cook until a ball is formed, when the mixture is tried in cold water. Beat until ready to spread. NO. 85. SPONGE CAKE. (A very old re- cipe.) Mrs. Nellie B. Stewart, 1417 East Twen- ty-first street, Los Angeles.— Five eggs, half pound of sugar, quarter pound flour. Beat yolks well, add sugar. Beat whites fifteen minutes (if egg beater is used less time is required to beat them stiff;) add to yolks and sugar, then add flour gently. NO. 86. WALNUT CAKE. Mrs. R. B. Wat- son, Bryson Villa, Sixty-eighth street, Los An- geles.— Half cup butter, one cup sugar, yolks of three eggs, and whites of two, well beat- en; half cup milk, one and a half cups flour, one and one-half teaspoons baking pow- der, three-fourths cup walnut meat

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