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)
Ingredients:
Instructions:
(from Tit-bits, Or, How to Prepare a Nice Dish at a Moderate Expense, by Mrs. S. G. Knight, 1864)
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.