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Summary
Handwritten recipe for "Milky Way Cake" — a from-scratch chocolate cake built on melted Milky Way candy bars and buttermilk, topped with a pecan-buttercream-style icing, baked in an angel food pan.
Key contents
Cake ingredients (as transcribed): - 8 Milky Way bars - 2 sticks oleo (margarine) - 2 cups sugar - 4 eggs - 3 1/2 cups flour - 1/2 tsp. soda - 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
Cake method: Add eggs. Sift together flour and soda, add it to the [melted Milky Way/oleo] alternately with buttermilk, stirring in. [Melt Milky Way bars and oleo together — implied by the icing step's parallel phrasing but the melting step for the cake itself is not explicitly separated out on the card; see open question.]
Icing ("Add pecans, Bake"... section — actually a second icing/topping passage, transcribed literally): - Melt Milky Way bars and oleo together, and 1 stick of oleo, cool. - 1 cup pecans - Cream 1 stick oleo and 1 cup sugar and mix together.
(Note: the card's two halves are visually split by a fold line; the exact assignment of "melt Milky Way/oleo" and "cream 1 stick oleo + sugar" lines to cake-vs-icing is ambiguous from the handwriting layout — see open questions.)
Baking instructions: Bake in an angel food pan at 325° for 70 minutes.
No title beyond "Milky Way Cake" (underlined, cursive) at the top of the card. No name/attribution written anywhere on the card.
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