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Just Cake Recipes
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An eclectic collection of cake recipes from vintage cookbooks.
- Added on: Mar 31st, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
General Advice on Baking Cakes
The following advice to bakers from "Dishes and Beverages of the Old South", 1913, is still relevant today. Enjoy!Here are a few cardinal helps. Have the eggs very cold, butter soft but not oily, flour dry and light—sun or oven-dry it in muggy weat...
Spice Cake
Cream a coffee cup of well washed butter, with two cups yellow sugar and one cup black molasses. Add to it one after the other, seven egg-yolks, beating hard between. When all are in, add one tablespoonful whiskey, or brandy, one teaspoonful grated c...
Aunt Polly's Pound Cake
Take ten fresh eggs, their weight in fresh butter, white sugar, and thrice sifted flour. Separate the eggs, beat yolks to a cream-yellow, add the sugar, cupful at a time, beat hard, then the butter creamed to a froth, then half the flour, then two wi...
Baltimore Cake
For this cake use one cupful butter, two cupfuls sugar, three and one-half cupfuls flour, one cupful sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, the whites of six eggs and a teaspoonful of rose water. Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually, beatin...
Miss Parola's Chocolate Layer Cake
Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream, and gradually beat into it one cupful of sugar. When this is light, beat in half a cupful of milk, a little at a time, and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth. Mix half a t...
Cake Recipes: Spice Layer Cake
* 2 cups light brown sugar * ½ cup shortening * 2 eggs * ¾ cup milk * 3 tsp. baking powder * 1 cup chopped raisins * 2¼ cups flour * 1 tsp. cinnamon * ½ tsp. cloves * ½ tsp. nutmeg * ½ tsp. saltCream sugar and shor...
