Plain Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups of sugar
• one of butter
• two eggs
• one cup of milk
• three and one-half cups of flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar together, beat in eggs one at a time, then add milk, and finally add flour.

2. 2

   Flavor, beat well, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Luncheons, breakfasts, simple dinners and carving (1905) by H. Myra Norton, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plain Cake — TwO' cups of sugar, one of butter. Cream butter and sugar together, beat in two eggs, one at a time, then add one cup of milk, last of all, three and one-half cups of flour. Flavor, beat well and bake. This makes a nice pudding served with sauce. Orange Cake — Make a nice white cake from any nice cake receipt. Then make an orange filling as fol- lows: Have hot a cup of milk, stir in one cup of sugar and the yolks of two eggs well beaten. The grated rind and juice of two oranges. Stir until it thickens well; let cool and spread between the cakes. Put white icing on top, flavored with orange. Angel Food Cake — One cup of flour mixed with one teaspoonful of cream of tartar and sift five times. Beat the whites of eleven eggs until light and flaky, then add one and one-half cups of sugar, granulated, that has been sifted five times. Flavor and beat again. Then mix in the flour quickly and lightly. Bake in an ungreased tin forty-five minutes. It is always better to use a new tin and keep it just for this cake. 54 One Egg Cake — One-half cup of butter and one cup of sugar, cream together, beat one egg, add one cup of milk and two cups of flour. Bake in long pan. This is a nice cake. Silver Cake — Two cups of sugar

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