Inexpensive Layer Cake

Ingredients

• one cupful of sugar
• one-fourth cupful of butter
• two eggs
• one and one-half cupfuls of flour
• one-half cupful of milk or water
• one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking-powder

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter and sugar, add yolks, then flour and baking powder alternately with milk.

2. 2

   Fold in beaten egg whites.

3. 3

   Bake in greased pans for 15-20 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 173. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking-powder; sift twice. Stir flour into the mixture, alternating with one-half cupful of milk; lastly^ the whites of the eggs, beaten stiflF. Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven. Bake in shallow pans. Spread one layer thinly with quince jelly and over that one-half cupful of chopped raisins, one-quarter of a cupful of chopped nuts, one-quarter of a cupful of cocoanut and the beaten white of one egg. Put top layer in place and cover with boiled icing. C. H. L DEVIL'S FOOD. (Fit for Angels.) Two cupfuls of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, two eggs, one-half cake of Baker's chocolate dissolved in one-half cupful of boiling water, a 240 CAKES. little salt, one teaspoonful of soda in one-half cupful of sour milk and three cupfuls of flour. Bake in layers. Filling. — One-half cupful of cream or rich milk, one-half cupful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar and one teaspoonful of vanilla; mix these together with two tablespoonfuls of chocolate and cook until it becomes waxy; then cool and spread quickly on layers. Mrs. Grennard. INEXPENSIVE LAYER CAKE. One cupful of sugar, one-fourth cupful of butter, two eggs, one and one-half cupfuls of flour, one-half cupful of milk or water

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