Plain Cup Cake

Ingredients

• HALF a cup of butter
• one of sugar
• three of flour
• one of milk
• three eggs
• one teaspoonful of soda
• two of cream of tartar
• lemon or nutmeg to taste

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter light, then add the sugar gradually, beating all the time until it is a cream, and then add the eggs, which have been beaten light, and the milk; mix all these well together, and then stir in the flour, in which the soda and cream of tartar have been mixed.

2. 2

   Flavour and bake either in loaves or sheets; when done, the place on top where it has cracked open, will look well done.

3. 3

   If baked in loaves, it will take forty minutes, in sheets, twenty.

4. 4

   This quantity will make two small loaves.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The English-Chinese cookery book (1890) by J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer (James Dyer) 1890- Ball, page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAIN CUP CAKE. HALF a cup of butter, one of sugar, three of flour, one of milk, three eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, two of cream of tartar, and lemon or nutmeg to taste

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