Buckeye Cookery

Tried and approved: the great American housekeeping bible of 1880.

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3 recipes in this part of Buckeye Cookery.

Velvet Sponge Cake

Two cups sugar, six eggs leaving out the whites of three, one cup boiling hot water, two and one half cups flour, one table-spoon…

Vanity Cake

One and a half cups sugar, half cup butter, half cup sweet milk, * one and a half cups flour, half cup corn starch, tea-spoon bakingpowder…

White Mountain Cake

Two cups pulverized sugar, half cup butter beaten to a cream; add half cup sweet milk, two and a half cups flour, two and a half tea-spoons…

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