Banana Layer Cake

Ingredients

• One small cup of butter
• two cups of sugar
• one cup of milk
• four eggs well beaten
• three cups of flour
• two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• slice bananas one-quarter of an inch thick
• whip half pint of cream
• one heaping tablespoonful of powdered sugar

Method

1. 1

   Mix butter and sugar until light; add milk and beaten eggs; add flour with baking powder sifted together; bake in layer tins.

2. 2

   When cool, place bananas between layers and spread whipped cream over bananas.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Banana Layer Cake One small cup of butter and two cups of sugar beaten together until light; then add one cup of milk and four eggs well beaten; add three cups of flour, with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted together; bake in layer tins and when cool take and slice bananas one-quarter of an inch thick; place between layers and whip half pint of cream with one heaping tablespoonful of powdered sugar

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