How We Cook in Tennessee

Ingredients

• two cupfuls of granulated sugar
• two cupfuls of flour
• two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• two squares melted
• two cups of brown sugar
• one cup of butter
• one cup of molasses
• five cups of flour unsifted
• one cup of milk
• one teaspoonful of soda
• two cups of white sugar
• three cups of flour
• half cup of milk
• one teaspoonful cream of tartar
• half teaspoonful of soda
• one cup white sugar
• half cup of butter
• two cups of flour
• one teaspoon cream tartar
• half teaspoon soda
• a cupful of butter
• a cupful of mashed potato
• a cupful of sweet milk
• a cupful of grated chocolate
• a cupful of chopped english walnuts
• a handful
• four eggs
• seven eggs
• three eggs

Directions

1. until it threads or makes a soft ball in water. Remove from fire and stir until begins to cream, then add the chocolate, melted.— Mrs. J. E. Ryley.

2. Potato Caramel Cake is made of two-thirds of a cupful of butter, two cupfuls of granulated sugar, two cupfuls of flour, a cupful of mashed potato, hot, half a cupful of sweet milk, four eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a cupful of grated chocolate or two squares melted, a cupful of chopped English walnuts, a teaspoonful each of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg (half as much if preferred). Cream the butter, sugar and yolks of the eggs. Add the milk, the mashed potato, spices and melted or grated chocolate. Sift the baking powder in the flour and beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth. Stir the sifted flour into the batter and, lastly, beat in the whites; the nuts are added just before the cake goes into the tins. A nut cake is always of finer flavor if the nuts are put in the very last thing. This makes a large loaf.

3. Marble Cake. — No. 1. — Dark. — Yolks of seven eggs, two cups of brown sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of molasses, five cups of flour unsifted, one cup of milk, one teaspoonful of soda, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice; dissolve the soda in molasses.

4. Light. — Whites of seven eggs, two cups of white sugar, one cup of butter, three cups of flour, half cup of milk, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, half teaspoonful of soda. Put alternately about a handful of each, or any way the taste may dictate to be prettily marbled. A part of the light may be colored with cochineal, and put in with the light and dark with good effect.

5. Marble Cake.— Light— One cup white sugar, half cup of butter, half cup of milk, two cups of flour, whites of three eggs, one teaspoon cream tartar, half teaspoon soda. Sift cream tar- tar and soda with flour. Cream butter and sugar, add milk and flour ; last whipped whites.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.