Layer Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 3 cups flour
• 4 eggs
• ½ cup butter
• or ½ cup of Snowdrift into which has been beaten ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup milk
• ½ teaspoon Royal baking powder
• flavor as desired

Method

1. 1

   Mix in usual way; bake in layers.

2. 2

   Gas stove, light both burners five minutes, put in cake, turn out front burner.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Raleigh cook book (1907) by N.C.). Ladies' Church Improvement Society First Baptist Church (Raleigh, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 cup butter; 4 cups flour; 2 teaspoons Royal baking powder; vanilla. Filling: 4 cups brown sugar; 1 cup milk; butter size of a walnut. Mix in usual way, bake in layers. 54 THE RALEIGH COOK BOOK. For filling: Cook 4 cups brown sugar, 1 cup miik until it thickens, then add a piece of butter size of a walnut. Beat until it is thick enough to spread on cake. Flavor with vanilla. White Cake.—Whites of 6 eggs; 1 cup butter; 1% cups sugar; 2 level-teaspoons Royal baking powder; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 3 cups flour; 1.cup milk. Cream butter; add sugar gradually, alternating with some of the stifly-beaten whites. Add vanilla. Sift flour in lightly, one cup at a time, alternating with the milk. Beat the batter a few minutes. Then stir in baking powder, baking immediately in layer pans. The success of this cake is in being made and cooked quickly, half an hour being sufficient time from the cracking of the eggs to taking the cakes from the oven. Boiled Icing.—3 cups sugar; 1 cup boiling water; whites of 3 eggs; 1 teaspoon flavoring. Cook the sugar and water till it threads when dropped from the spoon. Pour the syrup gradually over the stiffly-beaten whites in a flat dish and beat until thick. Add the flavoring. Sunshine Cake.—Whites of 7 small fresh eggs; yolks of 5 eggs; 1 level teaspoon of cream tartar; pinch salt; 1 cup sugar; 1 cup flour. Sift, measure and set aside flour and sugar as for Angel Cake. Beat yolks thoroughly. Beat whites about half, add cream tartar, and beat until very stiff. Sift in sugar lightly, then beaten yolks; then add flour. Putin tube pan and in oven at once. If you use gas stove, light both burners two minutes, put in cake, turn out front burner and turn back burner down little more than half. Bake ' forty to forty-five minutes. Layer Cake.—2 cups sugar; 3 cups flour; 4 eggs; % cup butter (or % cup of Snowdrift into which has been beaten % teaspoon salt); %4 cup milk; % teaspoon Royal baking powder; flavor as desired

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