Beat the yolks of the eggs, add the sugar, then the cream. Mix and sift the dry ingredients, add them to the liquid mixture, then add the raisins, which have been floured with a little of the measured flour, and, lastly, the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Put it into a greased pan and bake it for forty minutes in an insulated oven, heated for loaf cake, as explained in the test on [page 225].
Apple Sauce Cake
(Made without butter, milk or eggs)
- 1⁄2 cup white veal or beef drippings
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup sour [apple sauce]
- 11⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cloves
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 teaspoon soda
- 2 cups flour
Mix the ingredients in the order given, beat the dough well, put it into a greased pan, and bake it for forty minutes in an insulated oven, heated for loaf cakes, as explained on [page 225].
This cake seems, when baked, very much like any spice cake.
Sponge Cake
- 6 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- Juice and rind of 1⁄2 lemon
- 1 cup flour
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
Beat the yolks of the eggs, add the sugar and lemon; beat the whites of eggs till stiff, add them to the mixture, and when barely mixed add the flour and salt, folding them in lightly. Put it into a bright, ungreased tin, and bake it fifty minutes or an hour in an oven heated not quite so hot as for butter cakes. The paper should turn light brown when tested as explained on [page 225].
Let the cake stand five minutes before removing it from the pan.