Layer Cake

Ingredients

• One and one-half cups of sugar
• two-thirds of a cup of butter
• the whites of six eggs
• one cup of sweet milk
• two and one-half cups of pastry flour
• two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• flavor with lemon

Method

1. 1

   Put two-thirds of the mixture into jelly tins.

2. 2

   To the rest, add molasses, raisins, figs, cinnamon, allspice, and flour.

3. 3

   Bake together when cool.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus (1911) by Rufus Estes, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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