One, Two, Three, Four Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• ^4 teaspoon soda — dissolved in sour milk
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 cups flour
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup milk (fresh buttermilk)
• V2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon each vanilla and lemon flavoring

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add sugar, beat well, and add one egg at a time, beating well after each.

2. 2

   Sift flour with baking powder and salt, and add to mixture alternately with milk.

3. 3

   Makes four large layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book (1948) by Central Methodist Church (Spencer, N.C.). Gertrude Bobbitt Circle, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR CAKE 1 cup butter ^4 teaspoon soda — dissolved in 2 cups sugar sour milk 3 cups flour 1 teaspoon each vanilla and lem- 4 eggs on flavoring 1 cup milk (fresh buttermilk) V2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder

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