Spice Cake
Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), page 78. Vision transcription from the scanned page; needs review.
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Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk
- 1/4 cup margarine or butter, softened
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 eggs
Instructions
- In a bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger. Add buttermilk or sour milk, margarine or butter, shortening, and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer on low to medium speed till combined. Beat 2 minutes on high speed. Add eggs and beat 2 minutes more.
- Pour batter into a greased 13x9x2-inch baking pan. Bake in a 350° oven for 30 to 35 minutes or till a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
- Nutmeg Cake: Prepare as above, except omit cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. Increase nutmeg to 1 1/2 teaspoons.
- Applesauce Spice Cake: Prepare as above, except reduce buttermilk or sour milk to 1/4 cup and add 1 cup applesauce.
Source and image provenance
Historical recipe source: Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), Meredith Corporation. View the cited page at the Internet Archive.
Image credit: Image attribution: "Spice Cake with sea foam frosting.jpg" by Kimberly Vardeman; license: CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0); source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spice_Cake_with_sea_foam_frosting.jpg. Cropped/resized.
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