White Cake without Eggs

Ingredients

• 1 small cup sugar—6 ounces
• 1/2 cup butter—4 ounces
• 2 small cups milk—little less than a pint
• 2 heaped teaspoons baking powder
• 5 cups flour—1.5 pounds

Method

1. 1

   Warm the butter and stir it and the sugar together until well mixed, then add the milk and a little flavoring of nutmeg, lemon, vanilla or cinnamon.

2. 2

   Mix the powder in the flour, stir all together.

3. 3

   It makes a stiff batter.

4. 4

   The more it is beaten up with the spoon the better the cake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 194. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White cake (without eggs. No. 632 ; 15 cents.) Cream 30, sugar 10, milk 12, butter, bread 20, coffee, tea 12. Total, $1 97; 27 persons; 7^^ cents a plate. Two strangers arrived on the five o'clock train. Just the luck. The only time the 'bus failed to go to the train somebody came. But they got a livery rig and came over. Somebody says they are real dukes. Later : They are real Dukes. Not the European article, but members of the firm of Duke and Diamond, the well- known advertising agents, of Lakeport. Supper* Cracked wheat (3 cents.) Beefsteak (Borders, i^^ lbs, 20 cents.) Ham and eggs (8 orders, 36 cents.) Cold lamb (i lb, from dinner, charged.) 632— White Calo without Eggs. 1 small cup sugar— 6 ounces. Yz cup butter — 4 ounces. 2 small cups milk — little less than a pint. 2 heaped teaspoons baking powder. 5 cups flour — 1% pound

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