White Mountain Cake

Ingredients

• One cup butter
• two cups sugar
• four eggs
• three and a half cups flour
• two-thirds cup milk
• teaspoon cream tartar
• half teaspoon soda
• teaspoon extract of lemon

Method

1. 1

   Bake in four thin sheets and when done put a layer of frosting between each sheet.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fish, Flesh and Fowl: A Cook Book of Valuable Recipes, All of which Have ... (1894) by Ladies of State Street Parish, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

One cup butter, two cups sugar, three and a half cups flour, two-thirds cup milk, three eggs, one cup chopped raisins, one cup walnuts, half teaspoon soda. Washington. One pound brown sugar, one-half pound butter, four eggs (well beaten), one cup milk CAKE. 85 (medium size cup), one pound flour sifted twice, one pound fruit mixed with flour, currants, raisins and citron, one wine glass wine, one nutmeg, teaspoon cin- namon, two tablespoons baking powder. Makes one large cake. White. Whites of eight eggs, two cups sugar, one- half cup butter, three-quarters cup milk, three cups flour, one teaspoon cream tartar, half teaspoon soda. Bake in layers, spread each with icing and grated cocoanut, and when put together cover the whole with the icing and cocoanut. 2, One cup butter, two cups sugar, three and one- half cups flour, whites of five eggs, one cup milk, tea- spoon cream tartar, half teaspoon soda. Flavor with almond. White Mountain. One cup butter, two cups sugar, four eggs, three and a half cups flour, two-thirds cup milk, teaspoon cream tartar, half teaspoon soda, tea- spoon extract of lemo

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