Water Melon Cake
From Dora's cook book, 1888
Serves 5
Presented as published in 1888. 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 Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
WATER MELON CAKE. WHITE PART. Two cups white sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet — milk, three and a-half cups of flour, whites of eight eggs, _ CAKES. - a 719T 192 DORA’S COOK BOOK. two teaspoons cream of tartar, one teaspoon soda dis- solved in warm water. RED PART, One cup red sugar, half cup butter, one-third cup sweet milk, two cups flour, whites of four eggs, one teaspoon cream of tartar, half teaspoon soda, one teacup raisins. Be careful to keep the red part around the tube of the pan and the white around the edge. It requires two per- sons to fill the pan. LILY OF THE VALLEY CAKE, One cup butter, one cup sweet milk
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