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BREAD CAKE

From Famous old receipts used a hundred years and more in the kitchens of the North and the South, 1908.

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Ingredients

6 servings

Method

  1. Combine the risen dough, sugar, butter, eggs, and raisins to taste.

  2. Mix in the cream of tartar.

  3. Dissolve the baking soda in a little milk and add it last, mixing thoroughly.

  4. Place in a greased pan and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit until done.

Original recipe, verbatim

BREAD CAKE.

Mrs. Daniel Harrison, Philadelphia, Pa., 1861.

Contributed by Mrs. IV. Hinckle Smith, Philadelphia, Pa.

Two tea cups of risen dough, 3^ tea cup of sugar, '^ tea cup of
butter, 2 eggs, raisins to taste. Add a mite of soda and cream of
tartar in the dough, and dissolve the soda in a little milk, and add
lastly.

Transcribed as printed in Famous old receipts used a hundred years and more in the kitchens of the North and the South, 1908. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.

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