Yule Cake
From The new practical housekeeping, 1890
Serves 7
Can also be baked in patty pans and frosted with chocolate icing.
Presented as published in 1890. 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 The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
two teaspoons baking powder. Bake in a moderate oren. Washington Cake, — Cream pint pulverized sugar and thtee* Snarters pint butter, add well beaten yolks of ten eg^s half pint ouble cream, tablespoon rose water, juice and grated nnd of lemon. 72 CAKE MAKING. White Cake — Cream one and a third pints sugar and half pint butter, add half pint milk and well frothed whites of eight eggs, quart flour mixed with one-third pint corn starch and three tea- spoons baking powder, and last the juice and grated rind of two small lemons. Bake in a quick oven. For a White Fruit Cake^ omit corn starch and add to above half pound each raisins, figs, dates and blanched almonds, chopped and flavored and half pouna finely-sliced citron. Either of the above make delicious layer cakes, putting together with French icing. Yellow Cake^ — Cream pint pulverized sugar and gill butter, add well beaten yolks of eight eggs, half nutmeg, grated, half pint sour cream with level teaspoon soda dissolved in it, and three- quarters of a quart flour with teaspoon of cream tartar sifted with it. This is the old-time Gold Cake^ and using whites of eggs in- stead of yolks and half teaspoon each of lemon and almond ex- tract in place of nutmeg makes a Silver Cake, Yule Cake. — Cream two and one-half cups butter and three cups sugar ; add ten beaten eggs, four cups flour with two teaspoons bak- ing powder, four cups currants, two-thirds cup chopped citron, one teaspoon grated nutmeg, and quarter teaspoon powdered cloves
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