Name: Jewell's Cake
Yield: 2 layers
Ingredients: ¾ cup shortening; 1½ cups sugar; 3 eggs; 1¾ cups flour; ½ tsp. baking powder; ½ tsp. baking soda; ½ tsp. salt; ¾ tsp. nutmeg; 1 tsp. cinnamon; 1 Tbsp. vanilla; 1 tsp. lemon extract; ½ cup chopped nuts; buttermilk (amount not given); cocoa (amount not given); 6 Tbsp. butter; 1 egg yolk; 3 cups confectioners' sugar; 1 tsp. cinnamon; 1½ Tbsp. cocoa; 1½ Tbsp. hot coffee, with 1 tsp. butter added

Method

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Step 1: Put the shortening, sugar and eggs in a large mixing bowl.
Step 2: Sift the flour with the baking powder, spices, salt and cocoa.
Step 3: Add the soda and flavorings to the buttermilk.
Step 4: Sift the flour mixture into the mixing bowl and add about ½ cup of the buttermilk.
Step 5: Mix at medium speed until smooth, no more than 1 minute.
Step 6: Add the rest of the buttermilk and beat about 1 minute more.
Step 7: Mix the floured nuts in by hand.
Step 8: Bake in 2 layer cake pans at about 350°F.
Step 9: Icing: Cream the butter and blend in the egg yolk.
Step 10: Sift the sugar, cocoa and cinnamon together.
Step 11: Add the sugar mixture to the creamed butter alternately with the hot coffee. Beat until smooth.

What we changed or couldn’t read (4)

The method calls for buttermilk and cocoa, but neither is in the ingredient list or given an amount.
The source says "add the other egg with the rest of the milk", suggesting the eggs were meant to go in at two stages; the list gives 3 eggs all at once.
The source's method is garbled in places ("Sift flo again", "Mix flou ed nuts"); the steps follow the most likely reading.
No baking time is given.

Jewell's Cake

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