Plain Cake

Ingredients

• Cream one cup butter
• two cups sugar
• four whole eggs
• the yolk of another
• three fourths cup of milk
• one teaspoon lemon extract
• two cups flour which has been sifted three times
• one teaspoon baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time.

2. 2

   Mix in milk and lemon extract.

3. 3

   Add flour and baking powder, beat until smooth.

4. 4

   Bake in moderate oven for fifty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Natchez recipes (1900), page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAIN CAKE Cream one cup butter and two cups sugar together thoroughly. Add one egg at a time until you have added four whole eggs and the yolk of another, and mix thoroughly. Add three fourths cup of milk a little at a time and then one teaspoon lemon extract. Add two cups flour which has been sifted three times. Beat well until smooth. Sift one teaspoon baking powder

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