Nut Layer Cake

Ingredients

• one cup of sugar
• one cup of milk
• two cups of flour
• two even teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted in
• a piece of butter the size of an egg
• two eggs — the white of one, however, being put aside for the frosting

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the milk, the yolks of the two eggs and white of one well beaten, and lastly the two cups of flour, stirring the whole mixture thoroughly together.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete cook book (1900) by Rees, Jennie Day Mrs., page 104. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

NUT LAYER CAKE. Ladies seeking a new and delicious variety of cake for the five o'clock tea table will find it in the following recipe : The ingredients are one cup of sugar, one cup of milk, two cups of flour, with two even tieaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted in, a piece of butter the size of an egg, two eggs — the white of one, however, being put aside for the frosting

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