Layer Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup water
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder
• ½ cup butter
• 9½ cups flour
• Teaspoonful vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter to a cream in a deep bowl, and put in the sugar a little at a time, and rub this till it, too, creams.

2. 2

   Then put in the beaten yolks of the eggs, and then the water.

3. 3

   Beat the egg-whites well, and fold in half, then add the flour, in which you have mixed and sifted the baking-powder, and then put in the vanilla and the rest of the eggs.

4. 4

   Divide in two layers, or in three if the tins are small, and bake till a light brown.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl (1905) by Caroline French Benton, page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Layer Cake 1 cup sugar. % cup water. 2 eggs. 2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder. % cup butter. 9^/2 cups flour. Teaspoonful vanilla

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