Perfection Cake

Ingredients

• One pound of flour
• one pound sugar (pulverized)
• three-quarters of a pound of butter
• one gill of sweet milk
• one teaspoonful of baking powder
• eight eggs

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour and powder together; cream the butter and sugar together until light as a feather; beat the eggs separately, the whites to a stiff froth, and the yolks until rich and thick; add yolks to butter and sugar, then flour, and lastly, the whites of the eggs; beat lightly until all are well mixed, and bake in ordinary cake tins in a very slow oven.

2. 2

   For flavoring either vanilla or lemon may be used.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 355. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PERFECTION CAKE. One pound of flour, one pound sugar (pulverized), three-quarters of a pound of butter, one gill of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of baking powder and eight eggs

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