Webster Cake
From Royal baker and pastry cook, 1913
Presented as published in 1913. 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 Royal baker and pastry cook (1913) by Royal Baking Powder Company, page 31. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Webster Cake. — 1 cup butter, 3 cups sugar, 2 eggs, 5 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 cups raisins, seeded, 1 teaspoon each extract bitter almonds and vanilla, 1 A cups milk. Rub butter, sugar, and eggs smooth ; add flour sifted with powder, raisins, milk, and extracts; mix into medium batter; bake in cake-mold, in quick, steady oven, 45 minutes. V* Cookies and Small Cakes Requiring Four Eggs or Less OFT COOKIES. — 1 cup butter, 1 A cups sugar, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons milk, 1 tea¬ spoon Royal Baking Powder, just enough flour to rollout to a soft dough. Sprinkle with sugar before rolling, cut in rounds, bake in quick oven. Cocoanut Cookies. — 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup grated cocoanut, 1 tea¬ spoon vanilla, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Pow¬ der, flour to roll out. Bake pale brown. Plain Cookies. — A cup butter, l A cups sugar, 2 beaten eggs, 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg, 1 cup flour sifted with 1 tea¬ spoon Royal Baking Powder, sufficient flour added to make a soft dough. Roll out, cut into cookies, and bake pale brown in moder¬ ate oven. Jumbles. — 1 cup butter, I cup sugar, 4 eggs, 2 cups flour, A teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Rub together the butter and sugar ; add the beaten eggs, and flour sifted with the powder; flour the board, roll out the dough rather thin, cut with jumble-cutter, or any you may have; roll in sugar, lay out on greased tin; bake in fairly hot oven 10 min¬ utes. Little Chocolate Cakes. — 2 tablespoons butter, 1 cup sugar, A cup water, 1 A cups flour, pinch salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons grated choco¬ late melted over hot water, 1 teaspoon ex¬ tract vanilla
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