Wine Cakes

 

Ingredients

• Cake: 1 ounce Fleshmen's yeast
• 1/2 Pint water
• Flour
• 4 Eggs separated 
• 1 Tablespoon butter
• Nutmeg
• Dixie lemon extract
• Syrup: 1 pound white sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1/4 fresh lemon
• a piece of nutmeg or mace
• a small piece of cinnamon
• unfermented wine

Directions

Cake:

1. Dissolve yeast in water.
2. Add flour to dissolve yeast mixture to make a thick batter.
3. Set the batter aside and let it rise.
4. After the batter has risen sufficiently, add the yolks of the eggs with butter, nutmeg, few drops of lemon extract, and flour to make the batter thick.
5. Set aside for 30 minutes.
6. Grease and flour 12- 15 small fancy cake molds and fill 3/4 full.
7. Let the cakes in the molds rise 1/2 hour.
8. Put in oven and bake 20- 25 minute.

Syrup:

1. Combine sugar, water, lemon, nutmeg or mace, and cinnamon.
2. Cook until it forms a string syrup.
3. Add the unfermented wine.
4. When cakes are baked thoroughly, soak in syrup.
5. Set in a sieve to drain.

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Samantha Hillman
Louisiana Anthology
September 20, 2021