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Marble Cake

White Part

• whites of 4 eggs
• 1 cup of white sugar
• 1/2 cup of butter
• 1/2 cup of sweet milk
• 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• 1 teaspoonful of vanilla or lemon
• 2 1/2 cups of sifted flour

Dark Part

• yolks of 4 eggs
• 1 cup of brown sugar
• 1/2 cup of cooking molasses
• 1/2 cup of butter
• 1/2 cup of sour milk
• 1 teaspoonful of ground cloves
• 1 teaspoonful of cinnamon
• 1 teaspoonful of mace
• 1 nutmeg grated
• 1 teaspoonful of soda, the soda to be dissolved in a little milk and added after part of the flour is stirred in
• 1 1/2 cups of sifted flour

Instructions

Drop a spoonful of each kind in a well-buttered cake-dish, first the light part, then the dark, alternately. Try to drop it so that the cake shall be well-streaked through, so that it has the appearance of marble.

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Source

The White House Cookbook (1887).