Every thing mixed with pearlash should be
put in the oven immediately.
CUP CAKE.
Cup cake is about as good as pound cake, and is cheaper. One cup of
butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, and four eggs, well
beat together, and baked in pans or cups. Bake twenty minutes, and no
more.
TEA CAKE.
There is a kind of tea cake still cheaper. Three cups of sugar, three
eggs, one cup of butter, one cup of milk, a spoonful of dissolved
pearlash, and four cups of flour, well beat up. If it is so stiff it
will not stir easily, add a little more milk.
CIDER CAKE.
Cider cake is very good, to be baked in small loaves. One pound and
a half of flour, half a pound of sugar, quarter of a pound of butter,
half a pint of cider, one teaspoonful of pearlash; spice to your
taste. Bake till it turns easily in the pans. I should think about
half an hour.
ELECTION CAKE.
Old-fashioned election cake is made of four pounds of flour; three
quarters of a pound of butter; four eggs; one pound of sugar; one
pound of currants, or raisins if you choose; half a pint of good
yeast; wet it with milk as soft as it can be and be moulded on a
board.
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