Plain Loaf Cake

Ingredients

• One cupful of sugar
• One-half cupful of butter
• One-half cupful of milk
• One and a-half cupful of flour
• Two eggs
• One tea-spoonful of baking-powder
• One tea-spoonful of lemon or vanilla extract

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and the sugar together by stirring well; and add the milk, then the flavoring, and then the flour, into which the baking-powder has been stirred; lastly add the eggs, well beaten.

2. 2

   This cake requires little handling.

3. 3

   Do not beat it any longer than is just necessary to blend the ingredients smoothly together.

4. 4

   Bake for three-quarters of an hour.

5. 5

   This is a very reliable recipe and makes a delicious cake with very little labor.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 230. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAIN LOAF CAKE. One cupful of sugar. One-half cupful of butter. One-half cupful of milk. One and a-half cupful of flour. Two eggs. One tea-spoonful of baking-powder. One tea-spoonful of lemon or vanilla extract

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