Sweet Baked Goods Cup Cake - the Nicest Kind

cup cake - the nicest kind

(from the Southern Aegis and Harford County Intelligencer, Bel Air, Maryland, December 20, 1862)

Ingredients:

1 cup of butter​

2 cups sugar​

3 cups flour​

8 egg whites​

1 cup sweet milk​

2 tsp. cream of tartar​

1 (small) of soda​

Instructions:

1 cup of butter, 2 of sugar, 3 of flour, the whites of 8 eggs, 1 cup of sweet milk, 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, 1 (small) of soda. The cream of tartar to be put in the flour, the soda in the milk. Stir in the milk and flour the last thing, alternately. For cocoa-nut cake, grate one cocoa-nut and add to it - or a pound of blanched almonds, and extract of bitter almonds and a glass of brandy, will make delicious almond cake.​

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[donna]

Sounds delicious. One to make.