Brownstone Front Cake (1882)

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   "Brownstone Front Cake" is in the earlier edition of the Saratoga cookbook previously cited...Someone on Deja.com insists "Brownstone Front Cake" is 150 years old, going back to the 1850s or 1860s.

"OUR HOME FAVORITE"
PUBLISHED BY
THE YOUNG WOMEN'S HOME MISSION CIRCLE
OF THE
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y.
1882
SARATOGA STPRINGS:
THE DAILY SARATOGIAN STEAM JOB PRINT.
1882

Pg. 15:  FRENCH CORN MUFFINS.
Pg. 18:  SARATOGA POTATOES...CATSKILL POTATOES.
Pg. 48:  MACARONI AND CHEESE.
Pg. 52:  COCOANUT PIE...CHOCOLATE CUSTARD PIE.
Pg. 53:  GARFIELD PIE...MARLBOROUGH PIE.
Pg. 66:  DELMONICO PUDDING.
Pg. 73:  TUTTI FRUTTI, OR FROZEN PUDDING.
Pg. 82:  HUCKLEBERRY CAKE.
Pg. 85:  ANGEL'S FOOD.
Pg. 86:  WHIPPED-CREAM CAKE...SNAP DOODLE.
Pg. 90:  WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE.
Pg. 92:
      BROWN STONE FRONT.
   1 1-2 cups sugar, 1-2 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup sweet milk, 3 cups flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder; flavor with vanilla.  For the dark part use 1 1-2 squares grated chocolate, 1-2 cup brown sugar and 3 tablespoons milk.  Add 7 spoonfuls of the white part and stir well.  Bake the dark in 2 layers and the white in 3.
   Filling.--Melt 1-4 cake of chocolate in a very little water; boil, then thicken with powdered sugar.
   E. LENA CURTIS.

Pg. 97:  PRUNELLA DROPS.
Pg. 100:  GINGER SNAPS.
Pg. 104:  CHOW-CHOW.
Pg. 105:  HIGDUM...QUEEN OF ODE SAUCE.
Pg. 111:  MOLASSES CANDY...CHOCOLATE CARAMELS.
Pg. 112:  POP CORN BALLS.