January 12th, 1875 Seed Cake & 1912 Chocolate Cake
Burlington Vermont 1875
January 12th 1875
Seed Cake One cup of butter; two of white sugar, three eggs, half a cup of seeds, and flour enough to make a stiff paste. Roll it very this, with sugar instead of flour on board, and cut it in rounds. Bake it about fifteen minutes.
Avondale Pennsylvania 1912
January 12th 1912
Chocolate Cake Sadie Myers
1 ¾ cups of Gran. Sugar
½ cup cold water
½ cup butter and lard mixed
½ cup sour milk (a little more if necessary)
2 ½ cups flour
2 tsps. Baking soda (scant)
2 eggs separated
½ tsp. salt
½ cup cocoa. Put cocoa and cold water and soda in a dish and let stand. Mix sugar and butter add egg yolks, add sour milk and flour alternately add cocoa last and then beaten egg whites.
DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR
As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several books I have that are dated or from calendar books
The list of names for the people who contributed recipes for these books are listed here;
https://kitchenrecipetreasures.com/2021/03/04/daily-recipes-by-calendar-family-names/
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