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CHESS  CAKES
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CHESS CAKES

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

746
Calories
20g
Protein
18g
Fat
124g
Carbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients — the other 1 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
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Grape 1/2 cup (76g) 62
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Mace 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

  • 1 cup raisins
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 cup butter
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 teaspoon mace
  • 2 cups flour
  • 4 eggs

Directions

1

Mrs. Alice Hunter.

2

y2 cup butter. 4 eggs.

3

1 cup raisins. Reserving whites of 2

4

1 cup sugar. eggs for meringue.

5

Cream butter and sugar ; add eggs well beaten ; cook in double boiler; put in raisins and beat till cold; fill patty crusts; add meringue and put in oven until brown.

6

MARGUERITES.

7

Miss Edith Massee.

8

1 cup sugar. y2 cup milk.

9

]/2 cup butter. 2 teaspoons baking powder.

10

Yolks of 4 eggs. x/2 teaspoon mace.

11

2 cups flour.

12

Add enough flour to roll thin (about y2 inch thick) ; cut in rounds ; lay them in floured pans ; bake quickly. When cool, put on each a lump of currant jelly, and on this a heap of stiff frost- ing flavored with lemon. Set in warm oven to brown.

By Hamilton, Ohio. First Methodist Episcopal church. [from old catalog] · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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