Composition Cake

[ Composition Cake ]

Date: Late 18th or early 19th century; exact date unknown.

Publication Format
Manuscript

Type
Food

Ingredients
flour
sugar
butter
eggs
brandy
milk
pearl ash

Places
Nova Scotia

Source: Militia Regulations Book
Institution: Nova Scotia Archives | Reference: MG 100 Vol. 1 No. 5 / Microfilm Reel 786

Description

A recipe for a cake made with brandy pasted in the pages of a book of Militia Regulations.


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Composition Cake

2 lb flour, 1 lb Sugar

1 lb butter, 6 eggs

1 glass brandy, 1 pint milk

a Teaspoon of pearlash, disolved in

a little milk, & added just before

putting [th]e cake in the oven --