Cream Layer Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups of flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 level teaspoon soda
• 1 level teaspoon baking powder
• 3 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, add the soda to the buttermilk, sift flour and baking powder together two or three times and mix thoroughly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Carbon County cook book (1926), page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

14 cup butter, then add beaten yolks of 2 eggs. Add 1 cup luke warm water and 2 cups flour, 3 tablespoons burnt leather and beat five minutes. Then add 14 cup flour, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar, 1 teaspoon soda, beaten whites of 3 eggs and 1 teaspoon vanilla. MRS. DICKINSON. Blackberry Cake. Three-fourths cup of butter, 1 cup sugar, 3 eggs beaten separately, 3 tablespoons sour milk. Cream sugar and butter, add yolks of eggs and cinnamon, cloves and vanilla to taste. Then gradually add whites of eggs, 2 cups of sifted flour, 1 tea- spoon soda disolved in the milk, and lastly one cup of blackberries. MRS. WADE. Cream Cake. Three cups sifted flour, 3 level teaspoons baking powder, 114 cups butter, 114, cups granulated sugar, yolks of 3 eggs, 34 cup cold water, whites of 3 eggs, any kind of extract. Cream butter and sugar, then add well beaten egg yolks, then flour and baking powder sifted together, alternately with water then ex- tract, beat long and hard and fold in lightly the well beaten whites. MRS. C. N. RUSSELL. Cream Layer Cake. Two cups of flour, 1 cup sugar, 114 cups butter, 1 cup buttermilk, 1 level teaspoon soda, 1 level teaspoon baking powder, 3 eggs

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