Sunday, April 3, 2022

Sponge Cake

Ingredients

  • Nine pounds of nice peaches
  • Four pounds of sugar
  • One pint of good vinegar
  • Whole allspice

Directions

  1. Pare, stone [take the pit out], and halve the peaches.
  2. Boil the peaches in water until tender.
  3. Pour in vinegar and sugar with a little whole allspice till done.
  4. For immediate use, and a very good embellishment for cold meats. Apples are very nice done the same way.
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Rachel Niemirowski
Louisiana Anthology
July 16, 2019

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