Water Melon Cake Flavored with Rose Water

Recipe

Take one-half cup of white sugar, whites of four fresh eggs, half a cup of sour milk, half a cup of butter, two cups of flour; cream the butter and sugar, then add the milk with not quite a half teaspoonful of soda; stir in the flour, then a little egg, and so on, till all the ingredients are added. The eggs must be beaten till very light. This completes half the recipe. Then take one and one-half cups of pink sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of sour milk, not quite half a teaspoonful of soda, and two cups of flour; flavor the pink with anything you wish. Rose water is much used. Seed a quarter of a pound of raisins; rub them well in flour. After both kinds are ready, spread well the bottom and side of your pan with white dough; fill up with pink, leaving enough white to cover the top.

Content by Renee Shelton. Recipe adapted from my 1890 copy of The Model Cook Book: A selection of nearly 3000 Thoroughly Tested and Choice Recipes by Mrs. Frances Willey. This recipe was first published on Oldschoolpastry.pastrysampler.com on July, 30, 2012. It was updated on October 12, 2020.