Water-Melon Cake
From Granite City cook book, 1900
Recipe from Mrs. C. E. Gallaway.
Presented as published in 1900. 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 Granite City cook book (1900) by Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church (Mount Airy, N.C.), page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
WATER-MELON CAKE. '•White Part." 2 cups of white sugar. I cup of sweet milk. 1 cup of butter. 3 1-2 cups flour. 8 eggs (whites only.) 2 teaspoons of Royal Baking Powder. "Red Part." 1 cup of red sugar. 1-2 cup of butter. 1-3 cup of sweet milk. 2 cups of flour. 4 eggs (whites only.) 1 teaspoon of Royal Baking Powder. 1 tea cup of raisins. Be careful to keep the red part around the tube of the pan. MRS .C. E. GALLAWAY. DEVIL'S CAKE. 3-4 cup grated chocolate. 1-2 cup of sweet milk. 1-2 cup brown sugar. Boil in double boiler and let cool. 1-2 cup of butter 1 cup brown sugar. 1-2 cup of sweet milk. 2 well beaten eggs. 1 scant teaspoon soda dissolved in warm water. 2 cops of flour. 1 teaspoonful vanilla. Add first part when cool and bake in Three layers. ICING. 3 caps sugar 3-4 cup of water. Boil until it will thread then add beaten whites of two eggs and nuts if desired Flavor with vaniixa and beat until stiff. MRS. E. H. KOCHTITZKY. 18 STRAWBERRY SHORT-TAKE. 2 cups sugar. 1-2 cup butter. 1 cup sweet milk. 4 eggs leaving out the whites of two. 3 1-2 cups of flour. 1 teaspoons cream of tartar. 1 spoon of soda. Bake in two layers, butter while warm and put together with one quart of strawberries, sweetened. Beat the whites of two eggs and half a cup of sugar and put on top. Put in stove until a light brown. MRS. EDWARD ASHBY. IMPERIAL CAKE. 1 lb of butter. 1 lb of sugar, 1 lb of flour, 9 eggs, 1 1-4 ib of almonds. 1 lb of raisins. 1-2 lb of citron. Cream butter sugar and yolks of ^ggs. Then add the beaten vhites. then the flour, reserving a part for the fruit. Lastly add the nuts blanched, snfc fine and mixed with fruit and flour. MISS ALICE HAI'G-H, Fayetteville, N. C. DOUGHNUTS. 1 cup of sugar. 1 tablespoonful of butter. 1 cup of sour milk. 2 eggs. 1 teaspoonful of soda. pinch of salt and nutmeg to taste. Flour to make a soft dough. Roll thin, cut in rings and cook in deep fat. MRS. W. E. MERRITT. 19 DATE CAKE. 2 lb dates. 1 lb raisins. 1 lb citron. 1 It) currants. 1 cup butter. 1-2 cup molasses. 1-2 teaspoon soda dissolved in molasses. 1-2 cup of strong coffee. 2 eggs. 2 cups brown sugar. 1 1-4 lb flour. Spice to taste, Chop fruit fine and mix as you do fruit cake. MiRjS. ROBINSON, Wilmington, N. C. POUND CAKE. 1 lb sugar, 1 lb butter. 14 oz. flour. 10 eggs, 1 lemon grated rind, and 1-2 the juice if large. Soda the size of a pea, dissolved in one teaspoon of cold water Beat eggs separately and very thoroughly adding whites last, fold- ing them carefully in. MRS. ROBT. H INK'S. TILDEN CAKE. 1 cup of butter. 2 cups of sugar. 1 cup of sweet milk
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