Banana Cake

Ingredients

• H cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• A cup milk
• 2 scant cups flour
• 1 A teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
• whites 4 eggs
• A teaspoon vanilla
• H cup mashed banana

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour and baking powder.

2. 2

   Cream butter and sugar, add milk and flour alternately, then vanilla and beaten whites.

3. 3

   Bake in 3 layer-tins in hot oven.

4. 4

   To receipt for boiled icing (see Cake Fillings) add 0.5 cup mashed banana and use as filling.

5. 5

   Dust top with powdered sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal baker and pastry cook (1913) by Royal Baking Powder Company, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Banana Cake. — H cup butter, 1 cup sugar, A cup milk, 2 scant cups flour, 1 A teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, whites 4 eggs, A tea¬ spoon vanilla. Mix flour and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add milk and flour alternately, then vanilla and beaten whites. Bake in 3 layer-tins in hot oven. To receipt for boiled icing (see Cake Fillings) add H cup mashed banana and use as filling. Dust top with powdered sugar. Chocolate Layer Cake. — 2 eggs, 2 cups powdered sugar, 1 cup milk, 2 cups flour, 2 scant teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, A tea¬ spoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Beat egg yolks till thick . Gradually add and beat in the sugar. Add vanilla and milk, whites whipped stiff, and flour. Bake in 3 layer-cake pans in hot oven. Put together with chocolate filling, No. 2 (see Cake Fillings). Chocolate Loaf Cake. — A cup butter, 1 A cups sugar, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, A teaspoon salt, Yi cup milk, 4 eggs, 4 ounces chocolate dissolved in 5 table¬ spoons boiling water, 1 teaspoon vanilla.

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