Libbie's Cake

Name: Libbie's Cake
Ingredients: Four cups of flour; two cups of sugar; one cup of sweet milk; one cup of butter; four teaspoonfuls of baking powder

From Household hints, 1881

This is an excellent foundation for layer cakes of all kinds.

Presented as published in 1881. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Household hints (1881) by Emma Whitcomb Babcock, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Libbie^s Cake. — Four cups of flour, two cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, one cup of butter, four teaspoonf uls of baking powder

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