Book of American Baking / A Practical Guide Covering Various Branches of the Baking Industry, Including Cakes, Buns, and Pastry, Bread Making, Pie Baking, Etc.

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Pound Cake No. 1.

Ten pounds of sugar, 7 pounds of cotton-seed oil, 90 eggs, 1 quart milk, 1½ ounces gelatine, 1 ounce soda, ½ ounce mace, vanilla, 12 pounds of cake flour. Rub sugar and lard to a cream; next add the eggs (few at a time), and dissolve gelatine and soda in the milk with mace and flavor. Mix light and add flour and cream of tartar. Mix and bake in 10-pound cake pans lined with thick waxed paper. Bake in heat of 300 degrees F. Sold at 18 cents per pound.

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