Clay Cake

Ingredients

• Six eggs
• one cup butter
• two cups sugar
• four cups flour
• one teaspoonful soda
• one cup milk
• two teaspoonfuls cream of tar- tar (sifted with the flour)
• One cup butter
• Flavor with vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Separate the eggs, cream butter and sugar, add yolks which have been well-beaten.

2. 2

   Then add the milk and flour alternately.

3. 3

   Lastly mix in the stiffly beaten whites.

4. 4

   This makes four layers.

5. 5

   Use any filling preferred.

6. 6

   You will find this to be a great favorite.

7. 7

   If you wish you can bake this in a loaf also.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CLAY CAKE. Six eggs, one cup butter, two cups sugar, four cups flour, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in one cup milk, two teaspoonfuls cream of tar- tar (sifted with the flour.) One cup butter. Flavor with vanilla

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