One, Two, Three, Four Cake

Ingredients

• one cup butter
• one cup sweet milk
• two cups sugar
• two teaspoonfuls baking powder
• three cups flour
• four eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar together, add eggs, one at a time beating all the while, then add milk.

2. 2

   Sift well flour and the baking powder, then add this little by little to the mixture, beat hurriedly for a short while, make four average-sized cake pans and cook in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ONE, TWO, THEEE, FOUE CAKE. One cup butter, one cup sweet milk, tAvo cups sugar, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, three cups flour, four eggs; flavoring to taste. Cream the butter and sugar together, add eggs, one at a time beating all the while, then add milk. Sift well flour and the baking powder, then add this little by little to the mixture, beat hurriedly for a short while, make four average-sized cake pans and cook in moderate oven. Any filling may be used. — Mrs. Alvis K. Umstead. MOLASSES CAKE. Two eggs, one cup sugar, one cup molasses, one cup sour milk, two-thirds cup lard, two teaspoonfuls soda, one-half teaspoonful cin- namon, one -half teaspoonful ginger, four cups flour, bake in layers. L"se any kind of filling desired. — Mrs. T. J. Finch, Thomasville, N. C. WAE CAKE. Two cups chopped raisins, one cup cold water, one cup brown sugar, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half teaspoon spice, one-fourth tea- spoon grated nutmeg, one -half cup of lard or butter. Boil three min- utes, then cool, adding one teaspoonful soda* dissolved in two tablespoonfuls warm water and pinch of salt. One teaspoonful Eoyal Baking Powder, two cups, flour. Beat well and bake in a moderate oven for one hour. — Mrs. T. J, Finch, Thomasville, N. C. CUP CAKE. Three eggs, two cups sugar

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