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BABA  OR  RUM  CAKES
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BABA OR RUM CAKES

12 ingredients 10 steps internet_archive
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

640
Calories
20g
Protein
9g
Fat
109g
Carbs

Counts 5 of 9 ingredients — the other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 5 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Rum 1/2 oz (15ml) 32
Walnut 1 walnut half (4g) 26
Water not in our table 0
Syrup not in our table 0
Meat not in our table 0
Cake not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 4 cup water
  • one cup of sugar
  • half cup of water until a thick syrup
  • half cup rum
  • one cup walnut meats chopped fine
  • a tablespoonful of ground cocoanut
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cake compressed yeast
  • half way through the ball
  • two eggs
  • six marshmal- lows broken in pieces

Directions

1

2 cups flour.

2

y2 cup butter.

3

V2 teaspoonful salt.

4

1 cake compressed yeast.

5

*4 cup water.

6

Mix the yeast through the water thoroughly. Stir in flour to make a dough. Knead into a ball. Cut at right angles across the top half way through the ball and set in a sauce pan of luke warm water. Beat the rest of the flour, salt and butter and two of the eggs until smooth. Add the other two eggs, one at a time, and beat. Then add the light ball of sponge and again beat until smooth. Turn into well but- tered timble molds. When nearly double in bulk bake twenty minutes.

7

Boil one cup of sugar and a half cup of water until a thick syrup. Add half cup rum. Turn the hot syrap over the hot cakes. These are best when warm but may be served cold.

8

MARGUERITES.

9

Make a boiled icing. Stir into it six marshmal- lows broken in pieces. A tablespoonful of ground cocoanut. One cup walnut meats chopped fine. Tea- spoonful vanilla. Spread on crackers. Brown in the oven. Serve hot or cold.

10

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By Norton, Caroline Trask · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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