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WHITE POUND CAKE
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WHITE POUND CAKE

12 ingredients 5 steps internet_archive
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

758
Calories
20g
Protein
19g
Fat
125g
Carbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 6 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Grape 1/2 cup (76g) 62
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Nutmeg 1 tsp ground (2.2g) 12
Water 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

  • one pound sugar
  • half pound butter
  • one teaspoon baking powder sifted thoroughly
  • three cups sugar boiled in one of water until clear
  • one pound flour
  • one-half pound butter
  • one pound raisins
  • three pint pans full
  • three eggs to very stiff froth
  • four eggs
  • one nutmeg
  • two three pint pans full

Directions

1

Mi-s. Ada Estelle Bever, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

2

One pound sugar, one of flour, half pound butter, whites of sixteen eggs, one teaspoon baking powder sifted thoroughly with the flour, put in cool oven with gradual increase of heat; for boiled icing for the cake, take three cups sugar boiled in one of water until clear ; beat whites of three eggs to very stiff froth and pour over them the boiling liquid, beating all the time for ten minutes ; frost while both cake and icing are warm. Good.

3

QUEEN VIC. CAKE.

4

Miss M. B. F.

5

One pound flour, one of sugar, one-half pound butter, four eggs, one nutmeg, lemon if desired, gill of wine, one of brandy, one of cream, one pound raisins ; rub the butter, sugar and yolks of eggs to a perfect cream, beating a long time ; put in flour and fruit the last thing; bake an hour and a half; this makes two three pint pans full.

By Women of the First Congregational Church (Marysville, Ohio) · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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