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FIG CAKE
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FIG CAKE

13 ingredients 2 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

932
Calories
28g
Protein
26g
Fat
146g
Carbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Grape 1/2 cup (76g) 62
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Fig 1 medium (50g) 37
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

  • one cup of granulated sugar
  • two cups of flour
  • one cup of the flour together
  • one cup of sugar wet
  • half cups of powdered sugar stirred into
  • a cup of butter
  • a cup of milk
  • a cup of figs chopped fine
  • a cup of currants
  • two rounded teaspoonfuls of baking powder
  • four eggs
  • three layer cake tins well
  • two eggs beaten to a froth

Directions

1

Half a cup of butter, one cup of granulated sugar, half a cup of milk, two cups of flour, two rounded teaspoonfuls of baking powder, the whites of four eggs. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, stir the milk and one cup of the flour together and add to the butter and sugar. Sift the remaining cup of flour and the baking powder together, beat the whites of egg to a stiff froth and stir alternately with the flour into the other ingredients. Grease three layer cake tins well, divide the batter evenly and bake from seven to ten minutes.

2

FILLING.--Boil without stirring until it is clear one cup of sugar wet with a little water; remove from the fire and stir into it three-quarters of a cup of figs chopped fine and a quarter of a cup of currants, washed and dried. Spread two of the layers with this, put them together and ice top and sides with a plain icing made as follows: The whites of two eggs beaten to a froth and one and a half cups of powdered sugar stirred into it and flavored with almond extract.

By Henrietta Latham Dwight · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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