Layer Cake

Ingredients

• 1%. cups sugar
• ^ CUP of water
• x/2 cup butter
• 2l/2 cups of flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add the eggs without beating, then beat hard, add the water very slowly, the vanilla, and sift in the flour and baking powder.

2. 2

   Bake in three layers in well-greased pans in piping hot oven about 7 minutes each.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Efficiency in home-making and first-aid to good cooking (1915) by Robertson, Georgia, page 77. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LAYER CAKE. 1%. cups sugar. ^ CUP of water. x/2 cup butter or a little 2l/2 cups of flour. less of snowdrift. 1 heaping teaspoon baking 2 eggs. powder. 1 teaspoon vanilla

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