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Marble or Spiced Cake

A historical recipe from Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878).

A historical recipe

Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878). Project Gutenberg eBook #42450.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

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From Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #42450 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42450). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Make up a pound cake and add two teaspoonfuls of yeast-powder.
  2. Take one-third part of the batter and add to it two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon and mace each, one teaspoonful of cloves and allspice each, one nutmeg finely powdered.
  3. Then grease a pan and put in first a layer of the plain batter, then the spiced, alternately, till you have it full, finishing with the plain.
  4. Bake as a pound cake.--Mrs.
  5. C.
  6. V.
  7. McG.
  8. MARBLE CAKE.
  9. Light Part.
  10. 3 cupfuls sugar.
  11. 1 cupful butter.
  12. 1 cupful sour cream.
  13. 5 cupfuls flour.
  14. Whites of 8 eggs.
  15. 1 teaspoonful soda.