Cream Cake. Recipe No. 2. (Without Eggs.)
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Take: Sugar, 3 cupfuls; butter, 1 cupful; flour, 4 cupfuls; soda, 1½ teaspoonfuls; essence of lemon, 1 teaspoonful; nutmeg, ½ (grated); sour cream, 2 cupfuls.
Stir three cups of sugar and one of butter together thoroughly; add two cupfuls of sour cream, one and a half teaspoonfuls of soda dissolved in a little cold water, a teaspoonful of essence of lemon, and half a grated nutmeg; pour all this into the middle of four cupfuls of flour. Mix together quickly and thoroughly, and bake at once.
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