- ¼ lb. of butter
- ¾ lb. of flour
- Scarce ½ lb. of sugar
- ⅛ lb. of raisins
- 2 tbsps. of chopped orange rind
- 4 eggs
- ½ pt. of milk
- 4 grams of ammonium
- 2 tbsps. of chopped citron
Preparation: Butter, flour and sugar are rubbed together with the hands. Add to this the raisins, citron, grated orange rind; beat the 4 eggs to a froth, boil the milk and mix it with the eggs, then stir into the batter and lastly mix in the ammonium. Butter a pan, strew it with roll crumbs, fill in the batter and bake in medium hot oven 1 hour.
No. 57—WALNUT CAKE.
- ½ cup of butter
- 1 cup of brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup of sour milk
- ½ cup of chopped walnuts
- ½ cup of chopped raisins
- 2 cups of flour
- 2 tsps. of baking powder
- ½ tsp. of soda
Preparation: Cream the butter, add sugar and eggs and beat 10 minutes. Soda is dissolved in sour milk and mixed into the batter, the walnuts, raisins, flour and lastly the baking powder added. Put the batter into buttered pans and bake to a nice color.
No. 58—SPICE CAKE No. 2.
- 1 cup of butter
- 1½ cups of sugar
- 1 cup of sour milk
- 1 tsp. of soda
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups of raisins
- 2 tsps. of cinnamon
- 1 tsp. of cloves
- ½ tsp. of nutmeg
- 2 cups of flour
Preparation: Cream the butter with sugar and yolks of eggs, then add soda, dissolved in sour milk, and raisins, cinnamon, ground cloves, nutmeg and flour, and lastly the whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Butter a pan, put in the batter and bake 1 hour.
No. 59—SOUR CREAM CAKE.
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 cup of sour milk
- 1 egg
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 pinch of nutmeg
- 1 tsp. of soda
- 1 cup of flour