Layer Cake

Ingredients

• one cup sugar
• one tablespoon butter
• three eggs
• leave whites of two for frosting
• three-quarters cup milk
• two teaspoons baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Bake in layers.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Layer Cake Two eggs, one cup sugar, three-quarters cup butter, one cup strawberries, two cups flour, with two teaspoons baking powder. Bake in layers. Put chopped or sliced bananas between layers and ice with icing sugar mixed with a little strawberry juice. Jordan Cake Beat up two eggs, add one and one-half cups sugar, a pinch of salt, two cups of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder and a little milk. This can be made without butter; if added, only put a piece the size of half an egg. Cook in a moderate oven. Loaf Cake Five cents worth of cocoanut peel and walnut, two eggs, beaten separately, half cup butter, one cup sugar, half cup milk, half cup flour, one teaspoon baking powder. 134 The Toronto Cook Book Black Chocolate Cake Two cups sugar, one and a half cups butter, two cups flour, three eggs, one teaspoon baking soda, one cup sour milk, half cup grated chocolate, dissolved in one spoon of boiling water. Mix sugar and butter, add chocolate, then eggs well beaten, lastly milk, soda and flour. Bake forty minutes. Chocolate Cake Quarter cake chocolate, one yolk of egg, half cup milk, half brown sugar; boil all together, then add three teaspoons vanilla. White Part — One cup sugar, half cup butter, half cup milk one egg and white of another, two cups flour, one small teaspoon of soda. Cream the sugar and butter, add egg, milk and soda and flour sifted together. Stir the two mixtures together. Layer Cake One cup sugar, one tablespoon butter, three eggs, leave whites of two for frosting, three-quarters cup milk

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