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Sweet Baked Goods Miss Hull's Marble Cake

miss hull's marble cake
(from Tit-bits, Or, How to Prepare a Nice Dish at a Moderate Expense, by Mrs. S. G. Knight, 1864)
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Ingredients:

Light Cake -​
3-1/2 cups flour​
3 cups white sugar​
1 cup butter​
1/2 cup cream, or milk​
7 egg whites​
2 tsp. cream of tartar​
1 tsp. soda​
Dark Cake -​
5 cups of flour​
2 cups brown sugar​
1 cup molasses​
1 cup butter​
2 tbsp. cinnamon​
1 tbsp. clove​
1 tbsp. allspice​
1 nutmeg​
1/2 cup sour cream, or sweet cream or milk​
1/2 tsp. soda​
7 egg yolks​

Instructions:

[Light] Three and a half cups of flour, three cups of white sugar, one cup of butter, half a cup of cream or milk, whites of seven eggs, two tea spoonfuls of cream of tartar, one of soda.​
[Dark] Five cups of flour, two brown sugar, one cup molasses, one cup butter, two table spoonfuls of cinnamon, one of clove, one of allspice, and one nutmeg, half a cup of cream or milk, - sour if you have it, - half a tea spoon of soda, yolks seven eggs.​
Butter your pans, put in a layer of the last or dark, then a table spoonful of light (the first), and alternate with the dark and light throughout.​
 
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