We went to a living history Christmas event this weekend. The lady doing the hearth cooking demonstration was telling us about an early 19th century cake recipe called a 1234 cake or poor man's pound cake. The ingredients are:
1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 3 cups flour 4 eggs
We didn't get any directions. Googling wasn't much help -- most of the hits have milk, baking powder, etc. For mixing, I'm guessing you cream the butter and sugar then add the flour and eggs (beat the eggs first?). It sounded as though they had made it in a dutch oven. I know the cooking time will vary depending on the diameter of the dutch oven and the temperature of the coals. How long would you let it go before starting to check for doneness. How do you detemine when it's done? I found one site that says it's more of a cookie texture than a cake (
Any suggestions before we try this experiment. Himself is eager to go play in his new firepit. :-)
TIA, --Charlene
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