Butter Cake — Layer or Loaf

Ingredients

• Three-quarters cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 beaten eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 2 1/2 tspns. Rumford baking powder
• 1 tspn. flavoring

Method

1. 1

   Mix ingredients and bake as layers or in a loaf.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Memorial Hall cook book (1919) by Willow Grove Memorial Hall (Willow Grove, Pa.), page 31. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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