Old Fashioned Wedding Cake (Over One Hundred Years Old)

Mrs. A. J. Prentiss

Four and a half pounds flour, four pounds butter, four and a half pounds sugar, twelve pounds raisins, five pounds currants, three pounds citron, thirty-four eggs, four large nutmegs, one and a half tablespoons cloves, one ounce mace, three large tablespoons cinnamon, three large tablespoons rose extract, one cup molasses, one quart boiled sweet cider, one tablespoon soda. Bake four hours.

(Note: Since the Plymouth Cook Book was published in 1906, that would make this recipe circa 1780-1810. Looks like it would make either one enourmous cake or several smaller ones. Today's wedding cakes are often light airy cakes. This seems almost to be a spice/fruit cake. If you are looking for a cake that will feed a crowd I beleive this one is it.)

Orange Cake

Harriet Haskell MacDonald, Providence, R. I.

Five eggs, (save whites of two for frosting), half cup cold water, juice and rind of one large orange, two cups sugar, two cups bread flour, three teaspoons baking powder.

Frosting - Beat whites of two eggs, add juice of half orange and stiffen with powdered sugar.

Potato Rolls

Mrs. N. G. Stevens

Two cups mashed potatoes, one cake compressed yeast dissolved in one-third cup water, four eggs beaten, one tablespoonful sugar, a little salt, one measuring cup (scant) of lard. Mix together , adding flour until very stiff, let rise, then make out into very small rolls, let rise again, then bake twenty minutes

Sponge Cream Pie

Mrs. George Wilmarth, Topeka

One cup sugar, three eggs beaten with the sugar, one and a half cups of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder, half cup of cold water, tablespoon boiling water stirred in at the last.
Cream for Filling - One pint of milk put in a double boiler, one egg, cup of sugar, and tablespoon cornstarch, beaten together. Put into the milk and stir constantly till thickened. Flavor with vanilla. Split the cake and put the cream between when cold.

Persimmon Pudding

Handwritten recipe inserted into cookbook

1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups sour milk
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 or 3 tablespoons melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
flour, enough to make stiff batter or thin as desired
1 1/2 cups persimmon pulp

Washday Pudding

Mrs. H. V. Bullock

Layers of bread crumbs and layers of chopped apples in pudding dish, seasoned with butter, sugar, and cinnamon or nutmeg. Pour over one cup water and bake. Serve with cream and sugar.

Zodiac Cookies

Miss Laura Carter

Three-fourths cup sugar, two-thirds cup butter, three teaspoon water, one egg, half cup cocoanut. Mix soft.

Imperial Cake

Mrs. L. Bullene

One pound sugar, one pound butter, one pound flour, one pound almonds, one pound raisins, three-fourths pounds citron, one pound eggs or ten eggs, one glass rose water, a little mace. This is sometimes called a white fruit cake. Bake it in the same way as ordinary fruit cake. The almonds should be blanched and chopped and the raisins cut, citron sliced fine.