White Caramel Cake

Ingredients

• One cup sugar
• half cup of butter
• half cup sweet milk
• whites of four eggs
• one and one-half cups flour
• one teaspoon baking powder
• two cups brown sugar
• one cup sweet cream
• one teaspoon of butter
• one teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cook one-half hour and stir all the time.

2. 2

   If properly made it has the taste of maple sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White Caramel Cake. One cup sugar, half cup of butter, half cup sweet milk, whites of four eggs thoroughly beaten, one and one-half cups New Century Cook Book. 151 flour, one teaspoon baking powder sifted in the flour, flavor with vanilla. This can be baked in three layers with caramel between, or in one square cake and covered thickly with the caramel. Two cups brown sugar, one cup sweet cream, one teaspoon of butter, one teaspoon vanilla. Cook one-half hour and stir all the time. If properly made it has the taste of mapie sugar. Mrs. E. C. Spinney. Blue Berry Cake. One tablespoon butter, three eggs, one cup sugar, one quart flour, three tablespoons baking powder, two tablespoons milk, one quart berries stirred in last. For tea or breakfast. Mrs. J. B. Gascoigne. Chocolate Cake. Three-fourths cup butter, two and one-half cups sugar well beaten together, one cup milk, four cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, six whites of eggs well beaten, flavor. Put into pans greased and a little flour sprinkled over the pan well to prevent cake from sticking. Filling. — One-hall cake of chocolate (grated), one cup of milk, three cups sugar, butter size of walnut. Boil until it drops slowly from spoon. When cool spread on layers. Miss Lora Eidson. Chocolate Cake. Four eggs, two cups brown sugar, two cups flour, one-half cup sweet milk, one-half cup butter, one cup grated chocolate, one heaping teaspoon baking powder, one teaspoon baking soda, and one tablespoon corn starch. Flavor with vanilla. Put together with boiled icing. When mixing, sift flour, corn- starch, soda and baking powder together. Chocolate Jelly Cake. Two cups flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls Horsford's bak- ing powder, one tablespoonful butter, one cup sugar, one white and two yolks of eggs, one cup milk, one teaspoonful vanilla. Sift flour and baking powder together thoroughly, beat together butter, sugar and yolks of eggs, then add milk, flour and flavor- ing. Beat hard and lastly stir in whites of eggs beaten stiff. Bake in two or three layers and put together with chocolate jelly. 152 New Century Cook Book. Chocolate Jelly for Filling. Two ounces chocolate, one cup boiling water, three-fourths of a cup of sugar, one level tablespoonful butter, one heaping tablespoonful cornstarch in one-half cup cold water, one tea- spoonful vanilla. Shave the chocolate and add to the hot water with the sugar and butter. Allow it to come slowly to boiling, stirring until smooth, then add the cornstarch and vanilla. W nen nearly cold spread between the layers and over the top and sides. Chocolate Cake. One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, two eggs, two cups flour, one teaspoon baking powder, one- half teaspoon soda, grate one-half cake of chocolate, add one- half cup of sweet milk, yolks of two eggs, two thirds cup sugar, teaspoon vanilla. Boil until it thickens; after it cools stir into the cake; add soda last. Caramel Cake. One cup of butter, two of sugar, one of sweet milk, three of flour, one-half cup corn starch, four eggs, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, two of lemon extract. Make caramel as follows: Butter the size of an egg, one pint brown sugar, one half cup milk, one-half cake of chocolate (if desired). Boil twenty min- utes (or until thick enough), and pour over cake while warm, placing the layers one upon the other. Mrs. B. F. Masters. Caramel Cake. Whites of eight eggs, two cups sugar, one cup milk, three- fourths cup butter, one and one-half teaspoons baking powder, three cups of flour. Bake in at least three layers in a moderate oven. Caramel Cream Filling. Two cups of light brown sugar, one cup sweet milk, one- half cup butter. Cream the butter well. Put sugar, milk and butter in a pan together and boil till done. Stir almost all the time and cook until it strings. Flavor with vanilla. Mrs. Carrie D. Wilson. Chocolate Cake. One-half cup butter, scant; one cup sugar; cream the butter and sugar together; two beaten eggs, two cups flour, two tea- spoons baking powder, a little salt. New Century Cook Book. 153 Filling for Cake. One cup milk; let it come to a boil and add two and one- half blocks Baker's chocolate, scraped; cook together. Take off from stove and add one cup of sugar and one tablespoon of vanilla. Chocolate Cream Cake. Dark Part. — One cup grated chocolate (unsweetened), one cup brown sugar, one-half cup sweet milk. Set on stove in pan of water but do not let boil. When dissolved set to cool. Second Part. — One cup brown sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, yolks of three eggs, two cups flour sifted five times, one teaspoonful soda sifted with flour, one teaspoonful vanilla; now add dark part. It can be baked in loaf or layers. Put together with boiled icing. Mrs. W. T. Tate. Cream Chocolate Cake. Whites of four eggs, butter the size of an egg, small cup of sugar, three-quarters cup of milk, cup and a half of flour mixed with two small teaspoonfuls of baking powder, flavor to taste. Chocolate Filling. — Yolks of three eggs, one-half cup of milk, five tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, one tablespoonful of corn starch. Cream Frosting for Outside. — Two cups of sugar, one cup of milk. Boil three minutes. Cover the cake with melted chocolate. This is a very excellent recipe. Mrs. John F. Pershing. Solid Chocolate Cake. One and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup butter, two eggs, three-quarters cup of milk, two cups flour, three teaspoons baking powder, two squares Baker's chocolate melted, vanilla flavoring. Chocolate Cream Cake. Cream two cups of sugar and one cup of butter. Add the beaten whites of six eggs. One cup of cornstarch, dissolved in one cup of milk. Two cups of sifted flour. Three teaspoons baking powder. Cream. — Three cups sugar, one cup of milk; boil ten min- utes; beat until cold. Spread over the cake when it is cold. 154 New Century Cook Book. One-quarter cake grated bitter chocolate. Melt and spread lightly over the cream when it is hard. Anna Blanch Lane. Chocolate Cake. Yolks of two eggs, cup and one-half of sugar, one-half cup butter, three cups of flour, one spoonful of baking powder, one- fourth of a cake of chocolate in one-half cup of boiling water, one-half cup of milk. Put together with white icing. Chocolate Cake. Three and one-half cups flour

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